Overview
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How do you lead an on-demand workforce? Get an overview of the management and HR issues facing employers of nontraditional employees like contractors, freelancers, and elancers.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Characteristics of elancers
- Developing an overall strategy for managing and integrating work
- Becoming a leader who elancers want to work for
- Rewarding and incentivizing on-demand workers
- Using talent platforms to create a global supply chain of talent
- Defining work to be done by outsourcing, crowdsourcing, or contract
- Developing and deploying on-demand workers
- Maintaining control of intellectual property
- Assessing the capabilities of elancers
- Maintaining an organizational culture in a boundaryless organization
- Compensation and benefits
- Definition of an employee
- Advice to employers and employees
