> From: Michael McMaster <Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 08:29:49 +0000
>
> Providing an environment which increases productivity is as important
> when learning or knowledge is sought as when production is goods and
> services. I would even say, from being an educator and consultant,
> that the environment provided is even more important - as John
> Warfield indicated in a recent posting on group problem resolution
> work.
It is essential that administrators, managers, etc. understand
that employees, associates, professors, or whatever we call the "workers",
are generally working on a system that is imposed on them. It is
management that either design or enforces the system's ways, or both. In
most cases employees are really responding to what is demanded from them.
Working on the system, and not on the people, is the area on which
managers/administrators should put the major emphasis. This might require
a major change on the traditional evaluation and compensation systems for
managers, so that they lerarn to concentrate on the system (the
environment), where workers do their job. Providing workers with the
tools, the training and education, the guidance, the flexibility, etc. is
what really counts...
Ivan,
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