How to “work well”
Teaching the values of commitment and task sharing in production organisations to promote well-being and competitiveness
Resigning and giving up work, or the ‘Great Resignation’ phenomenon, is a growing and increasingly widespread issue (at least in certain sectors) that is engendering new questions we need to tackle, in terms of corporate and work cultures, too. This is the topic explored by Fabrizio d’Aniello in his article “Giovani e cultura pedagogica del lavoro” (“Young people and work-related pedagogic culture”), recently published in the SIPeGeS (the Italian Society of General and Social Pedagogy) bulletin.
The author begins with an observation: the ‘Great Resignation’ phenomenon has highlighted various symptoms of a widespread work-related malaise – something that we need to understand and handled, and that also concerns the field of work-related pedagogy. In fact, such desertion of the workplace demands a review of how work-related education is taught and the need to revise, rediscuss and update it – starting with young people.
The first goal, then, is teaching them how to work, and above all how to work well. A crucial stage according to d’Aniello, who believes that most circumstances are affected by a neglect of human relationships, a key factor that highlights the need to expose and “report” – and discard where required – the neoliberal focus on individual performance and performative competitiveness, as too much competitiveness, too much stress and too much dehumanisation may lie behind the ‘Great Resignation’ phenomenon.
What should be done then? The article by d’Aniello aims to promote teaching young people about a work-related pedagogic culture based on the significance of relationships, as well as providing them with useful advice on how to deal with modern-day issues. Hence, the author believes that this should be learned early and proceeds to identify the (virtuous) relationships between the new and future workforce, education and work-related pedagogy, before examining the issues affecting current work conditions and, lastly, outlining more effective pedagogic pathways.
Fabrizio d’Aniello’s analysis not only helps us better understand an increasingly widespread phenomenon, but also contributes to truly enhance, expand and disseminate what we know about “working well”. Thus, promoting commitment and task sharing through education may genuinely boost well-being and competitiveness.
Giovani e cultura pedagogica del lavoro (“Young people and work-related pedagogic culture”)
Fabrizio d’Aniello (University of Macerata)
Cultura pedagogica e scenari educativi, 1(1), 94-99, June 2023
Teaching the values of commitment and task sharing in production organisations to promote well-being and competitiveness
Resigning and giving up work, or the ‘Great Resignation’ phenomenon, is a growing and increasingly widespread issue (at least in certain sectors) that is engendering new questions we need to tackle, in terms of corporate and work cultures, too. This is the topic explored by Fabrizio d’Aniello in his article “Giovani e cultura pedagogica del lavoro” (“Young people and work-related pedagogic culture”), recently published in the SIPeGeS (the Italian Society of General and Social Pedagogy) bulletin.
The author begins with an observation: the ‘Great Resignation’ phenomenon has highlighted various symptoms of a widespread work-related malaise – something that we need to understand and handled, and that also concerns the field of work-related pedagogy. In fact, such desertion of the workplace demands a review of how work-related education is taught and the need to revise, rediscuss and update it – starting with young people.
The first goal, then, is teaching them how to work, and above all how to work well. A crucial stage according to d’Aniello, who believes that most circumstances are affected by a neglect of human relationships, a key factor that highlights the need to expose and “report” – and discard where required – the neoliberal focus on individual performance and performative competitiveness, as too much competitiveness, too much stress and too much dehumanisation may lie behind the ‘Great Resignation’ phenomenon.
What should be done then? The article by d’Aniello aims to promote teaching young people about a work-related pedagogic culture based on the significance of relationships, as well as providing them with useful advice on how to deal with modern-day issues. Hence, the author believes that this should be learned early and proceeds to identify the (virtuous) relationships between the new and future workforce, education and work-related pedagogy, before examining the issues affecting current work conditions and, lastly, outlining more effective pedagogic pathways.
Fabrizio d’Aniello’s analysis not only helps us better understand an increasingly widespread phenomenon, but also contributes to truly enhance, expand and disseminate what we know about “working well”. Thus, promoting commitment and task sharing through education may genuinely boost well-being and competitiveness.
Giovani e cultura pedagogica del lavoro (“Young people and work-related pedagogic culture”)
Fabrizio d’Aniello (University of Macerata)
Cultura pedagogica e scenari educativi, 1(1), 94-99, June 2023