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Ricardo Semler. S. Healy S00040390 EDRE 623. She Works M. Thomas. She works, she works like a trojan And she never says nothing, she doesn't get sick, She never makes trouble, she's a really good stick. All day, she works at the same job Over and over like a cow in the field
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Ricardo Semler S. Healy S00040390 EDRE 623
She WorksM. Thomas She works, she works like a trojan And she never says nothing, she doesn't get sick, She never makes trouble, she's a really good stick. All day, she works at the same job Over and over like a cow in the field A pig that's in clover, a capital yield IT'S a permanent job, it's a permanent strain She's a permanent woman, and it's a permanent pain And her fingers are feeling quite wretched But she never says nothing, doesn't complain She's alright in the morning, she does it again She tells you she's happy, she cries on the train And her boss, he thinks he is Santa He inquires politely, she says it's alright It's hurting so badly but it wouldn't be right She can do one more carton 'fore she says goodnight Problems, she's got great big problems She says it's arthritis to the power of ten It's been in her family since I don't know when She tells you it's going but here it comes again Oh and the union, she won't join the union She thinks she's a martyr, takes it with a smile The management knows but it's not their style You get used to being a cripple after a while
Implications of Semler • Challenges traditional business structures. • Perceieved as ‘revolutionary’.
Australian Context • Paid maternity/parental leave: • Concerns about low birth rates. • How will mother’s be supported in staying home and maintaining career opportunities. • Employer Initiative? Who will fund? • More women may be denied potential positions/promotions.
The value and conditions of labour. • “there is general agreement, that some opportune remedy must be found quickly for the misery and wretchedness pressing so unjustly on the majority of the working class: for the ancient workingmen's guilds were abolished in the last century, and no other protective organization took their place” #3 • “Wherefore, it is in his power to exercise his choice not only as to matters that regard his present welfare, but also about those which he deems may be for his advantage in time yet to come.” #7 Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII, 1891
Health and Safety? • Laws need to be stringent. Case of Victorian truck driver death- $130000 fine. • Costs 34.3 billion a year in Australia (deaths and serious injuries), however, numbers of accidents and injuries have fallen.
Work and dignity. • “It is not only good in the sense that it is useful or something to enjoy; it is also good as being something worthy, that is to say, something that corresponds to man's dignity, that expresses this dignity and increases it. If one wishes to define more clearly the ethical meaning of work, it is this truth that one must particularly keep in mind. Work is a good thing for man-a good thing for his humanity-because through work man not only transforms nature, adapting it to his own needs, but he also achieves fulfilment as a human being and indeed, in a sense, becomes "more a human being".” #9
The Lumiar School • Learner focused • Challenges traditional models of schooling. • Encourages student decision making in learning. • Flexible program.
There are two ways of viewing work: Work is something you have to do, like it or not, to make money that will allow you not only to sustain yourself but also, and most importantly, do the things you really enjoy doing; There are many things you really enjoy doing, and the best way to work is by getting people to pay you to do the things you would do anyway, even without pay. There are many things (information, knowledge, values, attitudes, skills, competencies) that you have to learn, like it or not, and the function of the teacher is to present these things to you and (in the case of teachers considered good) to look for ways of motivating you to learn them by trying to make learning them either fun and interesting or otherwise rewarding; There are many things that you are interested in doing, and the function of the teacher is to find ways to get you to learn important things (competencies, skills, information, knowledge, values, attitudes) while you are doing the things in which you are interested. Eduardo ChavesBusiness Consultant, Lumiar Scool, BrazilSource: http://lumiarschool.spaces.live.com/
Key focus questions: • What are the benefits of work? • What risks are there associated with work? • Should employers fund maternity leave or should the State? • Are safety risks worth capital gain? • What is more preferable, hierarchical structure or more democratic? • Do we live to work, work in order to live or does is there are different relationship to consider?
Bibliography • Banks, Stephanie (2006). “There’s a Market for Protocols”, The Age, Melbourne 15/5/2006. • Chaves, Eduardo (2008), “Lumiar, An Innovative School”, http://lumiarschool.spaces.live.com/, accessed on 13/4/2010. • Dodson, Louise (2002). “Why Babies are the PM’s Risky Business”, The Age, Melbourne 2/8/2002. • Maresco, Peter (2007). “Ricardo Semler: Creating Organizational Change Through Employee Empowered Leadership”, http://www.academicleadership.org/emprical_research/Ricardo_Semler_Creating_Organizational_Change_Through.shtml, accessed on 13/4/2010. • Leo XIII (1891) “Rerum Novarum” • John Paul II (1981) “Laborum Exercens”
