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As life and work become increasingly integrated, the workers are looking to find new and better ways to balance their professional and personal commitments, asking for better working environments, for more freedom of choice and for the possibility of defining their own professional goals. These dynamics are changing the role of engagement. It is no longer a goal in its own right but a means to create a working experience which positively blurs the lines between private and public life as well as those between individuals, the company and the society.
WORKERS ARE INCREASINGLY LOOKING TO “DESIGN” THE PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN THEIR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIVES - AND HAVING A BOSS WHO WILL SUPPORT THEM IS A DIFFERENTIATOR IN THEIR EMPLOYMENT CHOICE”.
KELLY, "KELLY GLOBAL WORKFORCE INDEX",2015
They are seeking an experience in which their personal fulfillment goes hand in hand with the development of a workplace culture that is respectful of differences in characteristics like age, gender and culture, and that sees the employee not only as a person with skills and competences for the service of the company, but also as an agent of change, a person with healthy links to society and the world outside.
In this scenario, the idea of flexibility is not simply about the capability of the workplace to respond to change, but also the way the company embraces and manages the cultural and wider social changes it should adopt to meet the needs of individuals. “Hierarchical organizational models aren’t just being turned upside down — they’re being deconstructed from the inside out”6.
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Seven Levels of organizational consciousness
Source: Barret Values Centre
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How values and needs change over different historical periods, systems of belief and generations: a comparison between the industrial, dream and creative societies.
Source: Et. a. "The Creative Man", The Copenhagen Istitute fo Future Studies, 2010.