1. What key challenges are likely to be created by the coexistence of these three scenarios?
2. What are the implications of these different scenarios for the HR function?
3. What types of HRM practices would you recommend for each scenario?

A team from PwC and the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilisation at the Said Business School in Oxford came itogether in 2007 to develop a series of scenarios for the future of people management. The result was three ‘worlds of work’, which provide a lens through which to examine how organisations might operate in the future. The forecasts are based on the results of a specially commissioned survey of 10,000 people in China, India, Germany, the UK and the USA and a survey of almost 500 HR professionals across the world.