Is a company an organic entity, i.e. a dog, or a mechanical device like a clock?
HR have developed too many tools and polices, rather like the hand book to repair a machine when a part malfunctions. But an organisation is not a mechanical device, rather it is an organic system.
HR could scrap all un-necessary rules and tools, and bring back the humanity it once was.
New employees at Nordstrom are given one rule - the words "use good judgment," supplemented by a handbook of other general legal regulations and company expectations.
The first challenge; what would be the one rule for your organisation?
Second challenge; How would you start educating all employees in the organisation to understanding how the whole system of any organic process functions?
Once all understand the way organic systems function, then a new kind of effective structure can emerge.
Dear Fiona - unfortunately it seems unbelievably difficult for people to let go entrenched but wrong paradigms.
Even though anybody understands that companies are no mechanical but social systems, to move ahead and throw away 20th century management (mechanics) books seems close to impossible.
21st century management is about managing the inseparable compound of technology, PEOPLE, business, and markets. Therefore, we are talking about a socio-technical-cultural-economic system and nothing could be farther away from a mechanical one - and this is the reason why management 1.0 is doomed to fail!
And, PEOPLE are the most central and complex part within the equation - and therefore, not understanding human collaboration, cooperation, thinking, feeling, learning, judging, suffering, desiring, decision making, loving etc. processes falls short of any kind of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT.
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For sure a not so (classical) mechanical approach is driving adaptability for employees interacting with customers and peers.
Organic is closer as far as analogy, or benchmarking framework.
Think the Opposite 2 cents proposal : maybe when looking at provoking changes to myself, in the mirror, that could change others, I can benefit from the properties of quantum mechanics.And exchange (positive hopefully..) properties in a light time.Even faster. Something I call "Entangled Talents".Works for individuals but teams or departments as well.
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Frederic, Can you suggest:
The first challenge; what would be the one rule for your organisation?
Second challenge; How would you start educating all employees in the organisation to understanding how the whole system of any organic process functions?
Look forward to your thoughts
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