Humans are individuals, individuals who see the reality in a certain and unique way…let’s give people the opportunity to contribute in every level of organizations breaking the hierarchical barriers.
The key is the work flexibility. If we want the people to unleash their imagination and his resourcefulness, we have to put them constantly in new situations. When a employee does always the same kind of work or the same tasks, its level of creativity and imagination is based on its past experience and in past events, and that’s the reason of why the degree of innovation of the solution for a problem always will have shades of its past knowledge and therefore He will base the solution on solutions that worked in the past and with a specific problem.
My proposal is to eliminate the concept of “work division” (Adam Smith). We have already surpassed the state of “bee honeycomb” that allowed us to obtain an exceptional yield. It is a concept that was devised thinking about industrial processes and that later it has been adapted to more intellectual tasks, I mean, defining a job position and later looking for the person with the right profile to cover it. Just think about the moment in which a person occupies a position for the first time without any experience. His level of motivation is enormous and its degree of contribution of new ideas and new practices is normally very high, just because this person wants to take control of the new situation (looking for control is one of the sources of energy and happiness).
We have to be able to extend that initial moment of maximum implication and happiness of the employee, But how? …By eliminating the limits and therefore the concrete definition of the job. An employee has to be seen like a continent plenty of strong points and points of improvement, and we have to give him the opportunity to develop himself and to grow personally and professionally, How? Giving him the opportunity every few months to be involved in new tasks that require fresh ideas and new perspective, that means that we don’t have to only develop employees in one concrete branch (marketing, finances, commercial… etc), the employees must be multitask and they have to be able to be constantly engaged to personal and professional challenges, and thus and according to his degree of implication and contribution it is possible to evaluate their value for the company. And that’s game! This can be obtained using social media tools and games by objectives to embark in concrete missions to employees of all the organization who must let of side their hierarchic position to unleash their creativity and innovation for the resolution of concrete new problems.
By doing so we eliminate hierarchical barriers and we create communities of game (missions), which objectives and fair play are controlled by the leaders of the teams. Those leaders don’t need perforce to be hierarchical managers. Everyone engaged in the game (mission) can develop new attitudes and abilities which can foster their growth inside the company.
This can be accomplished by creating a virtual playground where every employee can contribute. This playground has to be the place where employees (never showing their hierarchical position) can ask to participate in a certain game (mission) if they want so. By doing so we give them the opportunity to show the company their real attitudes and behavior, ant their degree of creativity, innovation and flexibility. In the midterm the company can decide to promote those employees who really show the attitudes and abilities necessary to become a natural leader, which will also promote engagement and innovation, creating a big an flexible community of imagination.
Humans are individuals, individuals who see the reality in a certain and unique way…let’s give people the opportunity to contribute in every level of organizations breaking the hierarchical barriers.
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