Book-in-quotes series # 4

The 8 Values of Highly Productive Companies

Creating Wealth from a New Employment Relationship

AuthorDr Tim Baker

“ The traditional employment relationship has been and important and successful centrepiece of industry since

the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, yet the relationship has been under strain lately because the marketplace has changed dramatically in the last 25

years”.

“Ironically, most human resource development approaches fail to take

into consideration the needs and interests of the employee.”

“Enlightened workplaces are likely to attract the critical self-led workers needed for success. The self-

motivated employee, particularly with a modern mindset about the employment relationship, is

increasingly in demand.”

“The successful and sustainable application of the New Employment

Relationship Model is about changing the culture of an organisation.”

“Contemporary organisations need top be strategically adept, adaptable and responsive, wish

minimises hierarchy, and encourages its highly skilled workforce to engage in lifelong learning, problem-

solving and creative thinking.”

“Being clear about who your customer is, and spending time providing value-added service is a much less energy draining and more personally

affirming use of an employee’s time than wallowing in the internal ambiguity of a dying bureaucracy.”

“The modern employee, embracing a new mindset about their work

performance, should acknowledge that who they are is not where they work,

but what they do.”

“People are by nature tribal; that is, they naturally build alliances and

associations with others.”

“Heightened expectations of work and the changing nature of the role work plays in people’s lives creates a more significant connection between human spirit

and work.”

“Today, not only do not expect to work for decades for the same company, they do not necessarily want

to.”

“A multidimensional approach to learning and development is more likely to meet the growth needs

of workers and, at the same time, assist in contributing to organisational outputs.”

“How can managers constrain employees’ independent judgment and, at the same time, encourage

initiative.”

“A review of the interdependencies of the eight values in the New Employment Relationship

Model offers a practical roadmap to navigate the transformation from a traditional to new

employment relationship in a company.”

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