This course offers an alternative perspective on activities related to managing the workforce. Assuming students have a basic understanding of human resource management techniques, it attempts to tackle the puzzle posed by the contemporary workplace. The course mainly focuses on activities related to managing the people who do the work of organizations. Workforce organization and transformation in the workplace helps grapple with today's complexities by adopting a framework that captures the interrelationships between influencing national and international (macro) factors, organizational (meso) factors, and individual and team dynamics (micro). These techniques include learning, talent management, unlimited workforce, integrating workplace dynamics, artificial intelligence and the future, virtual workforce, reflections and future directions. These transformations can be better understood with an action research orientation.