The great transformation of work and business
A study just published reasons from a pedagogical point of view on the need to change models and styles of organization and command
Change of priority. Change of reference paradigms. And new prospects for life and work. The vast and varied change that society and the economy have been going through for some time also passes through these circumstances. Which also reflect on the ways of working and on the choices of those who work. The same changes that, on closer inspection, are also reflected in command and organization models. It is this tangle of problems that form the focus of Caterina Braga’s reasoning (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) in her recently published study “Leadership empatiche e comunità di pratica per un lavoro dignitoso e di qualità” (Empathic leadership and communities of practice for decent and quality work).
The analysis set out in the article is inspired by the ongoing series of political/social upheavals and the recently overcome pandemic: events that, according to Braga, have changed the way in which people live and work, accelerating the trends that were already emerging in the workplace.
To lose by Caterina Braga, what many call ‘the great resignation’, can instead be defined as ‘the great reflection’. A great reflection on the basis of which workers have reevaluated their priorities, deciding, in a significant number of cases, to leave their employment to find a “healthier” and more satisfying job. All this for Braga also represents a challenge for pedagogy called to rethink and redesign organisational models aimed at achieving total human fulfilment and the integral development of the person. A goal that can also be achieved in the world of work and in the organisation of production. The research conducted by Braga, therefore, puts forward the theory that a new style of “supportive” leadership is necessary. A style that knows how to embrace empathy and compassion, combining them with action and that allows communities of practice to develop organisational solidarity, sharing goals, practical knowledge, meanings and languages. An all-round model also of the company and its organisation that is part of the change of a culture of production that is more complete but certainly more complex, which sees the achievement of profit not as an exclusive goal but as part of a set of goals to be conquered together.
Leadership empatiche e comunità di pratica per un lavoro dignitoso e di qualità
Caterina Braga (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)
MeTis. Mondi educativi. Temi, indagini, suggestioni 14(1) 2024, 123-139
A study just published reasons from a pedagogical point of view on the need to change models and styles of organization and command
Change of priority. Change of reference paradigms. And new prospects for life and work. The vast and varied change that society and the economy have been going through for some time also passes through these circumstances. Which also reflect on the ways of working and on the choices of those who work. The same changes that, on closer inspection, are also reflected in command and organization models. It is this tangle of problems that form the focus of Caterina Braga’s reasoning (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) in her recently published study “Leadership empatiche e comunità di pratica per un lavoro dignitoso e di qualità” (Empathic leadership and communities of practice for decent and quality work).
The analysis set out in the article is inspired by the ongoing series of political/social upheavals and the recently overcome pandemic: events that, according to Braga, have changed the way in which people live and work, accelerating the trends that were already emerging in the workplace.
To lose by Caterina Braga, what many call ‘the great resignation’, can instead be defined as ‘the great reflection’. A great reflection on the basis of which workers have reevaluated their priorities, deciding, in a significant number of cases, to leave their employment to find a “healthier” and more satisfying job. All this for Braga also represents a challenge for pedagogy called to rethink and redesign organisational models aimed at achieving total human fulfilment and the integral development of the person. A goal that can also be achieved in the world of work and in the organisation of production. The research conducted by Braga, therefore, puts forward the theory that a new style of “supportive” leadership is necessary. A style that knows how to embrace empathy and compassion, combining them with action and that allows communities of practice to develop organisational solidarity, sharing goals, practical knowledge, meanings and languages. An all-round model also of the company and its organisation that is part of the change of a culture of production that is more complete but certainly more complex, which sees the achievement of profit not as an exclusive goal but as part of a set of goals to be conquered together.
Leadership empatiche e comunità di pratica per un lavoro dignitoso e di qualità
Caterina Braga (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart)
MeTis. Mondi educativi. Temi, indagini, suggestioni 14(1) 2024, 123-139