Well, maybe not so random. I did use Technorati, after all, to find this thoughtful blog post titled "Workplaces Internally and Externally" by Wade M. (Thoughts from a twenty-something guy living in Sydney, Australia – The Brain of Wade).
If he really is twenty-something and is thinking as deeply and cogently as I infer from reading this blog post and others on the blog, I feel for him … because he’s seeing the big picture at a pretty early stage in life, I think, and there are times as you get older that the big picture can seem pretty disheartening.
On the other hand … there will not be any shortage of thorny complex problems with which to engage.
Always look on the bright side of life, ta-dum, ta-dum …
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Workplaces Internally and Externally
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From my limited direct experience, as well as second and third-hand understanding, the cubical and the process-worker still seems to be the way most workplaces are run. These structures seem to inhibit enjoyment, co-operation, communication, and happiness and effectively dis-able their employees.
When as people we feel involved, and responsible for our actions and output, we feel happier, and do a better job. When we are allowed to think, we become enabled nodes and peers, no longer following, but helping to shape and create something greater than before. From nothing comes something. The success of peer2peer file-sharing, and wikipedia shows the power of self-coordinating peers, when allowed to act and do.
An employee who feels passionate about his workplace, who enjoys the people and his work, is less likely to be sick, and more likely to stay a part of the developing company. The company gains even greater productivity as well as knowledge retention. Dialogue and communication take places, collaboratively they steer the ship to their common vision, not some top-down management approach that seems illogical to the employee. This is the wirearchy.
A workplace when buying (raw) resources looks at the capital investment required. Most often, the lowest costing resource is brought about through lowest/slave labour and the unsustainable pillaging of resources. This model in both the short and long term hurts the local economies hindering their development, keeping them trapped. They have no money to spend locally, they can’t buy anything locally, they can’t develop or invest money back into their economy. Resources that are taken at low margins from these places are converted elsewhere, and finally marked up sometimes 100’s of percent.
The workplace sees the buying of the resource and the selling of the finished produce as two unrelated events. The flow of profit, does not go back to where it’s needed to help bring local worker and economies out of poverty, instead it is kept for it’s own sake. Again we have the slave to the capital. It’s accumulation makes the companies slave to the dollar, no longer a tool for development. Please drink Dilmah tea.
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Tags: democratic workplaces, empowerment, WorldBlu, wirearchy
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