Responsible Workplaces: How to Survive and Thrive

 

Irresponsible workplaces are not an option in any economic climate. If businesses are to survive and thrive it is their people, and the workplaces that support, empower and nurture them that will largely determine success or failure. 

Executive Summary

Business and government leaders are grappling with a worldwide economic crisis that many see as unprecedented.  The social and economic landscape has shifted radically since the last, deep recession of the early nineties creating new challenges for these leaders.

 In the closing decades of the twentieth century, industrial economies evolved into knowledge based ones across the developed world. This has resulted in global integration, technological advances, prosperity and aspirations for a more values driven, sustainable world. 

 This new dimension to the social and economic landscape has huge implications for workplaces, the meaning of work and where and how it gets done. 

 The current crisis offers an opportunity to rethink workplace design and practices to better align them with the new knowledge era and the expectations of the workforce and the societies in which they live.  By doing this business can better survive the current crisis and emerge as more competitive, dynamic organisations.

 The Responsible Workplace: How to Survive and Thrive provides insights into economic and social trends underpinning the knowledge economy and how creating and sustaining responsible workplaces can benefit companies in the short and long term. It concludes with some suggested recommendations for employers.