ATTI 79° CONGRESSO NAZIONALE SIML
15 April 2025
Vol. 38 No. 3 (2016)

How the changing nature of work is changing us. A reflection on people and organisations

Come ci cambia il lavoro che cambia. Una riflessione sulle persone e sulle organizzazioni

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The world is changing rapidly, even work. The main new features of the labor market relate mainly to the supremacy of consumption over production, the ease with which you can access the information, to the space conquered by the ideas and knowledge and, most recently, the sharing of experiences, which led to the sense making the organizational business culture. These deep changes are grafted into organizational models that gradually try to satisfy the demands of the market. By Taylor-Fordist model to the Japanese based on "just in time" many things have changed, but it has changed above all the meaning that is attributed to human nature. In summary, the historic transition is that once business owners reminded to employees: "You're not paid to think", but now urge them thus: "The quality is up to you." The route taken by the first to the second statement is the meaning of the genetic changes in work and workers today.

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How the changing nature of work is changing us. A reflection on people and organisations: Come ci cambia il lavoro che cambia. Una riflessione sulle persone e sulle organizzazioni. (2025). Giornale Italiano Di Medicina Del Lavoro Ed Ergonomia, 38(3), 136-138. https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.681