Why This Blog?

WHY THIS BLOG?

WORK IS ALWAYS ON EVERYBODY'S MIND.....

With 40 years of experience under my belt, I am ready to contemplate on this a very emotionally sensitive human dimension of our lives.

Over the years I have seen that our base human instincts are manifested when we think about work. What, how, why and when we work affects us to our very core.

I have seen all types of reactions when it comes to work.  And when anything happens to the sanctity of our work system we suffer extreme reactions, psychological, emotional, financial, social and physiological. Our work provides us our most basic security need. Somehow we derive our self worth through our work. This in spite of the exhortations of the religious and spiritual leaders that there is much to our lives than our mere material and economic condition derived through work. Another way of saying this is that there is more to our lives than the satisfaction of our worldly material needs. This message has been and is still soundly broadcasted by many self-help philosophers throughout modern times. But in spite of all such admonitions we remain permanently fixated on our working condition and the status it brings.

Dissatisfaction is our primary emotional reaction to our working lives. All throughout time, work has generated a lot of our personal dissatisfactions. Our cups are always have been empty. But why?

Concepts of work and pay disparity, comparable worth, equal pay, minimum pay, legal regulation of work have resulted in lively debates over the many years I have worked as a business professional.

Work has many structural facets, psychological, philosophical, financial, sociological, legal, governmental, emotional, mathematical and anthropological, in addition to the most obvious, the economical.

There are great changes coming in our work lives, as such through this blog I want to contemplate the past, deriving lessons from such contemplation. But I also want suggest ideas and generate discussions around what I think the future holds in "Our Work Lives."

Make no mistake great changes are afoot. Not just incremental changes but total paradigm shifting changes.

I will write about these changes. There are changes coming with the concept of work itself. We will see changes on how we go to work, how we get paid, how many of us will be working, where we will live while going to work, how many hours we are going to work, where we have to look for work and our concepts of work mobility.  There will also be a whole lot of other changes.

It is therefore, a very complex intellectual endeavor. Yet those who profess to be professionals in the field exist blissfully ignorant about the deep thought processes involved in creating optimum programs for their entities to meet this fundamental purpose of organizational existence.

Thus, this contemplative blog! I plan to discuss fundamental concepts, theories, practices, ideas, thoughts, debates and paradigm shifts.

Why am I ready to do this, one may ask?

Well, I have encountered every possible work situation across the entire world.

The years are behind me.

As one of my bosses talking about me has said, "there is both good and bad news about this guy. On one hand he is very knowledgeable in this field and that is good. But on the other hand, the bad news is one cannot fool him."

And so, through this blog I hope to answer questions, discuss issues, solve dilemmas, speak the truth and help with the governance of this most delicate and emotional aspect of business life. After all, do we not all work for a living - earning money in the process?

There is a lot to say, covering both practice and theory. This I can do because I have worked in the field of Work Resource Management for 11 companies globally and have consulted to about 60 companies and along the way I have taught this subject at major universities and public seminars.

I have much to say in a straight forward manner...

In the words of Richard Florida - a Great Reset is on the way. All of this I will write about in my forthcoming blog essays. Please find my blog, read my essays and let the discussion start.

Let the flow start.....