Organisational culture
A book outlines the way to reorganise Italy’s production and administrative systems
A new beginning for organisations – in terms of efficiency, too – and therefore also a new beginning for production culture, one differing from the prevailing Italian one. A long-term goal that can be achieved by reading some good manuals along the way, such as Federico Butera’s book.
Indeed, Disegnare l’Italia. Progetti e politiche per organizzazioni e lavori di qualità (Designing Italy. Projects and policies for quality works and organisations), recently published, starts from the pertinent observation that what lies at the root of Italy’s weak economic and social system is an unacknowledged organisational issue. In other words, Italy is a country where works and organisations are highly unevenly run. On the one hand, we have a range of new and excellent organisational, work and management methods, but on the other we find a conglomerate of ineffective, ineffectual and unsustainable practices regulated by obsolete procedures and organisational cultures.
Butera proposes to “redesign” Italy (hence the book’s title) according to a planning and development concept applicable to high-quality works and organisations, thanks to enabling digital technologies, industrial policies and work sites engaging people’s involvement. All this accompanied by increased care for the environment and appropriate digital procedures, as well as for better quality of life, greater wealth and, above all, the engendering of a more democratic society.
After providing a concise overview of Italy as an “unevenly organised society”, the author sets the goal to be reached, starting with work-based organisations, and then outlines the enterprises and public administration of the future, before examining the tools required to fulfil this aim. These include attention to relationship networks and systems, the implementation of new working methods, the tangible attainment of quality works and workers, and an awareness of the deep cultural relevance of organisational change.
As the author concludes, “Finding new organisational methods is not enough, we need to develop new concepts concerning technical and social structures.”
Disegnare l’Italia. Progetti e politiche per organizzazioni e lavori di qualità (Designing Italy. Projects and policies for quality works and organisations)
Federico Butera
Egea, 2023
A book outlines the way to reorganise Italy’s production and administrative systems
A new beginning for organisations – in terms of efficiency, too – and therefore also a new beginning for production culture, one differing from the prevailing Italian one. A long-term goal that can be achieved by reading some good manuals along the way, such as Federico Butera’s book.
Indeed, Disegnare l’Italia. Progetti e politiche per organizzazioni e lavori di qualità (Designing Italy. Projects and policies for quality works and organisations), recently published, starts from the pertinent observation that what lies at the root of Italy’s weak economic and social system is an unacknowledged organisational issue. In other words, Italy is a country where works and organisations are highly unevenly run. On the one hand, we have a range of new and excellent organisational, work and management methods, but on the other we find a conglomerate of ineffective, ineffectual and unsustainable practices regulated by obsolete procedures and organisational cultures.
Butera proposes to “redesign” Italy (hence the book’s title) according to a planning and development concept applicable to high-quality works and organisations, thanks to enabling digital technologies, industrial policies and work sites engaging people’s involvement. All this accompanied by increased care for the environment and appropriate digital procedures, as well as for better quality of life, greater wealth and, above all, the engendering of a more democratic society.
After providing a concise overview of Italy as an “unevenly organised society”, the author sets the goal to be reached, starting with work-based organisations, and then outlines the enterprises and public administration of the future, before examining the tools required to fulfil this aim. These include attention to relationship networks and systems, the implementation of new working methods, the tangible attainment of quality works and workers, and an awareness of the deep cultural relevance of organisational change.
As the author concludes, “Finding new organisational methods is not enough, we need to develop new concepts concerning technical and social structures.”
Disegnare l’Italia. Progetti e politiche per organizzazioni e lavori di qualità (Designing Italy. Projects and policies for quality works and organisations)
Federico Butera
Egea, 2023