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Self and Work: Changing Landscapes and Opportunities in the Digital Era
K. Peter Kuchinke, Ph.D., Professor EmeritusDepartment of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
The Need for a Shift in Paradigms• Moving from a surplus to a shortage
economy• Mismatch of labor/talent supply and
demand
• Recognizing need for integration of societal systems
• Need for public-private partnerships of support
• Need for international/global solutions• Lack of systems of learning life-wide
and life-long
• Opportunities and challenges for individual success
WFEd.HRD
Value
Innovation
Improvement/Transformation
Excellence
Challenging
Deeply Engaged in Practice
Wholistic
Cutting Edge
Workforce Education and HRD Work: Exciting and Rewarding
Kuchinke, EPOL 2021 2
Human Flourishing as Ethical Foundation of Workforce Education and HRD
• “Technical excellence and political commitment have no value unless they have an ethically sound purpose” (Dr. Lee Jong-wook, 2003)
• Human Flourishing: “Well-being and living well in matters public and private, economic and social, political and spiritual” (John Finnis, 1980)
• Human Flourishing as a fundamental human right (United Nations).
• Education and Learning as Expansion of Capabilities
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Human Flourishing (John Finnis)
• Dimensions:• Life, health, safety• Knowledge and aesthetic
experience• Excellence in work and play• Friendship• Self-integration• Self-expression or practical
reasonableness• Religion
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Ecosystems:• Organizations• Communities• Families• Networks• Nations• Global
Responsibility for human flourishing for self and others
Human Flourishing through Workforce Education in the the Public Sphere
• Examples:• Regional development in Busan/Korea • Turkish Immigrant Integration in Berlin• Performance Management for UN Tree
Reforestation Program• Entrepreneurship Development in Kenya• National Human Resource Development
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Human Flourishing and HRD at the Organizational Level
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Not-for Profit• Leadership development of bishops in a
Baptist Church• Social skill development of surgery residents• English-as-second language training in
Urbana
For Profit• “Women at Abbott”• 3M health screening and language clubs • Diversity initiatives
Secretary’s Commisson on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS)
The Five Competencies1. Resource Management
2. Interpersonal
3. Information acquisition and use
4. Systems Thinking
5. Technology Proficiency
The Three-Part Foundation1. Basic Skills
2. Thinking Skills
3. Personal Qualities
What will it take?
Promoting dialogue, exploring options,
experimenting with solutions (Senge et.
al., 2017)
E.g.: diversity, inclusion, equity, fairnessLeadership, participation, information sharing
Cooperation and collaboration (Sachs, 2017)
A “Smart, fair, and sustainable” economic system
Realignment of human values and economic system
(Henderson, 2020)
Shared value stakeholder approachPurpose-driven organizationValuation based on ESG (environment, social, green)
References
• Finnis, J. (1980). Natural law and natural rights. Oxford, UK: Oxford University.• Henderson, R. 2020. Reimagining capitalism in a world on fire. New York: Public Affairs. • Hill, R., Kuchinke, K. P., & Zinser, R. (2013). (Re-)Connecting workforce education and human resource development.
Human Resource Development Review 12(1), 3 – 10.• Kuchinke, K. P. (2011). Human flourishing as a core value for HRD in an age of global mobility. In M. Lee (Ed.), HRD as
we know it: Speeches that have shaped and developed the field of HRD. (pp. 292-305). London, Routlege.• Ratatori, D., Lee, E. J., & Sleeva, S. (2021). The evolution of the workforce during the fourth industrial revolution. Human
Resource Development International 24(1), 92 – 103• Reich, R. 2020. The system: Who rigged it, how we fix it. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. • Sachs, J. 2017. Building the new American economy: Smart, fair, and sustainable. New York: Columbia University
Press. • Senge, P., O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski, J. and B. S. Flowers. 2004. Presence: Human purpose and the field of the
future. New York: Crown Business. • World Economic Forum (2021). The post-pandemic future of work – according to 3,000 CEO’s from around the world.
Oceber 27. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/the-post-pandemic-future-of-work-according-to-3-000-ceos-from-around-the-world-685436524a/
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“…we can see a long way in all directions…”
Thank you very much!Ich bedanke mich!
For more information: [email protected]
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