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Cluster 3 Day 1
Future of Work
Salzburg 21.5.2007
Future of Work – Day 1 Soft Skills – Elements of
A New Social Contract• Autonomy (see details in the next slide)
• Job contract
• Service – client orientation; accounting clients’ needs, preferences, demands
• Skills, competences, “informal”
• European contract with implications on regional policies
• Redistribution/taxes
Future of Work – Day 1 Soft Skills – Elements of
A New Social Contract• Increased autonomy of the employee, in
terms of a portion of working time to develop personal projects to be reused within the company; the autonomy means different things in terms of professions, hierarchy levels; technology cycle; Institutional way to settle negotiations; official = job + “informal” activities
Future of Work – Day 1 Social Experiments –
Best Practice and Examples• Organisation giving time to the employees
for self-development benefiting a community or the society at large
• Random eligibility as experiments for evaluating social policies
• Creating incentives for an equal split for parental leave – increasing equal job opportunities
Cluster 3 Day 2
Future of Work
Salzburg 22.5.2007
Future of Work – Day 2Networks & Communities
Improving employment outcome through networks
Roles of informal networks for employees – examples from Germany:
• Knowledge workers get access to job related information and new hiring opportunities from the informal networks;
• Immigrants overcoming language barriers through informal ethnic networks for accessing the jobs, as opposed to Germans who are accessing formal channels;
Future of Work – Day 2Networks & Communities
Improving employment outcome through networks
Roles of informal networks for employers – examples
• IT companies relying mainly on recommendations from employees while recruiting new personnel;
• Recruitment for position in academic world relying on recommendations combining information received from formal and informal networks
Future of Work – Day 2Networks & Communities
Improving employment outcome through networks
Views on the networks: • Benefits for both
employees and employers;
• Networks of skills as opposed to networks of misery; mixed networks including employed and unemployed based on common skills
Future of Work – Day 2Networks & Communities
Improving employment outcome through networks
Questions to be considered:
• How to develop participation in and profit of social networks?
• How to provide an access of socially excluded to the advantaged social networks? Advantage = relation to labour market opportunities
Future of Work – Day 2Networks & Communities
Improving employment outcome through networksTechnology based networks - how to do?
• Encourage the use of knowledge management systems (to do lists, wiki, calendar, files, chat)
• Collaborative networks • Schools and pupils using these, substituting
some activities done in school • Potential use also in a workplace or in skills
based communities; extrinsic motivation needed
Future of Work – Day 2Networks & Communities
Improving employment outcome through networksTechnology based networks - how to do?
• Exiting/entering/incentives/effort; openness; motivation
• Mentored tasks will be carried on making more tangible the personal contribution
• Referral systems, connecting the skills networks to informal networks of the members
Future of Work – Day 2Networks & Communities
Improving employment outcome through networks
Non-technology informal networks• Digital divide as mainly age divide
– youth mentoring seniors;• Lack of infrastructure and access to internet of
disadvantaged groups– providing access and training in public spots (Finnish example);
• Disadvantaged groups, not able to connect to different networks;– Using a set of tools as starting point to create a community: joint
learning events (seminars, workshops, study trips), developing certain skills
• Not enough representation of employees’ interests– Modernised “guild system” – skill based and open
Future of Work – Day 1& 2Soft Skills, Social Experiments
Networks &Communities
• Increased capacity of individuals through– Open organisation and development
opportunities (self-development in independent dependency/autonomy at working place)
– Skill based communities with the purpose of people meeting their potentials through a mentoring process (including persons with different skills levels)
Future of Work – Day 1& 2Soft Skills, Social Experiments
Networks &Communities
• Thanks