Some friends of mine organise a conference or a workshop. I am part of the team. Here is a first outline of what the conference will be about. It was written by Marc Borner (mb). We have not yet decided on a title and date.
Since the content nicely supplements one of my recent articles (Work has not been created for humans – Nicht der Mensch ist für die Arbeit da …), I would like to publish the following text by Marc:
Since the 19th century, Homo Oeconomicus has been the dominating concept of our business life. It views the individual person as part of a total mechanism that is supposed to function and can be optimized and analysed mechanically. The individual person becomes an “homme machine”, represented by a number. The belief that those numbers can then be controlled in volatile work surroundings is based on exactly this short-sighted image of business players.
This approach totally ignores who actually initially did all the work. To be sure, every individual person is also part of a company, but besides being a mere means to an end, he is always also the reason why the company exists. If this idea is forgotten, the consequence will not only suffer massive economical loss, but also a progressive alienation felt by the individual participants in a business process, which will cause damage to the emotional capital.
More recent scientific work, especially in the fields of psychology and neuroscience, proves that the aforementioned assumptions are correct. They also show a way out, pointing towards non-reduced work conditions characterized by participation, trust and responsibility. In this manner, you can create a fear-free, transparent area where clarity prevails and individual persons work together at eye-level, instead of against each other.
Generating these kinds of work conditions that meet the needs of the individual persons a lot better will stimulate a homeostasis between enterprises, entrepreneurs, managers, employees and laborers. It will create a new concept of leadership and make an enterprise not only more successful, but also take it back to where it originated: as an institution serving the general well-being.
The workshop will explicitly deal with this topic and try to both enlighten us on the current scientific state of the art and build the bridge to practical applications.
I rather like this text. We were already successful in finding eminent speakers for the event. Now I am interested in finding out how you feel about the text and/or if, for example, you would be interested in the topic and probably attend this kind of workshop.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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