Employee Contract LO3941

SHAYNE GARY (SGARY@lbs.lon.ac.uk)
Wed, 29 Nov 1995 20:24:04 GMT

Replying to LO3900 --

> Comments on LO3900

> Managing the transition from a traditional hierarchical infrastructure
> towards a job-free workplace

> * Allaying employees' fears by adequately preparing them for the unknown
> workplace
> * Surviving and prospering without the narrow boundaries of written job
> descriptions
> * Reconceptualizing the traditional perspective of a "job" as the basic
> organizational unit of work
> * Throwing out the old job descriptions; the modern alternative to traditional
> "jobs"
> * Creating self-managers intent on doing what needs to be done

> Postscript: Conditions for individual and organizational success in the
> new psychological contract

Goshal, Bartlett, and Moran propose the moral contract of employability
versus lifetime employment as the key factor determining which firms
create or maintain a sustainable competitive advantage in today's
turbulent environment. your talk seems to have many of the same threads.
if you have not already, i would look up their paper, "Employment
Security, Employability and Sustainable Competitive Advantage." They also
presented a similar paper at the Euroforum this past September. That
paper was titled, "The New Moral contract: Overview." Pascale also wrote
an essay which is attached to the back of this paper that offers some
criticisms. The Strategic Leadership Research Programme of the London
Business School is beginning research on precisely these issues.

I would be very interested in the references you have for your talk.

Best of luck in the talk.

--
Michael Shayne Gary
London Business School
44-171-262-5050 ext 3496