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Traditionally, efficiency and flexibility are seen as mutually exclusive when managing a workforce; when one increases the other decreases. This does not seem the case with organizations that care about the wellbeing of employees: what are your thoughts about that?
G.C. _ An open organization is one that cares about the welfare of people, offering the necessary flexibility to help them work better and it is often rewarded with a greater willingness from the employee to give more than expected. If a company is transparent and shares with its own employees information and goals, every person is aware of the work process, accepts responsibility and eventually is also available to help colleagues, knowing that next time they will help them back in return.
Therefore, our experience shows that efficiency and flexibility are not exclusive, at all. Empowering people and facilitating their interactions results in the optimization of the working process.
The secret lies in the common sharing of a corporate philosophy, a set of values that everyone must respect. Our mantra is to achieve the goals we have set in a project through the satisfaction and engagement of those who work in it.
Apparently, we are moving from a model of work in which the employees are free to customize their workplace to one in which they have the chance to choose times and places in which to work. Is that the case with Tetra Pak, too? How would this freedom of choice in the way to work impact on the role of management?
G.C. _ Tetra Pak is a family based company, founded in Sweden, a country with a very different working culture compared to those in the Mediterranean. In our offices flexibility has always been at the centre of the relationship between employee and company, at all possible levels.
TAKING RESPONSABILITY OF MANAGING YOUR OWN WORKING TIME IS A SKILL YOU NEED TO LEARN
Allowing flexibility means acknowledging that there are individual aspects - such as who is more efficient in the morning and who in the afternoon - organizational ones - such as those who work with clients
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