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The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance In the by Cathleen Benko

By Cathleen Benko

The company ladder has been the existing version for a way businesses deal with their paintings and their humans because the starting of the economic revolution a century in the past. The ladder represents an rigid view within which status, rewards, entry to info, impact, strength, and so on. are tied to the rung one occupies. the matter is, the authors argue, we now not reside within the business age.

The velocity of swap is quicker. paintings is more and more digital, collaborative, and dispersed. corporations are flatter. businesses are a lot more straightforward to determine into. Careers zig and zag. paintings is completed anywhere, each time. and data flows in all instructions. the outcome? The ladder version — in addition to the outmoded norms and expectancies that outlined it — is collapsing.

In their best-selling booklet, the company Lattice: reaching excessive functionality within the altering international of labor, writer Cathy Benko and co-author Molly Anderson outline the rising company LatticeTM version and argue convincingly lattice is best suited to today’s worldwide company setting. They describe the shift throughout 3 dimensions:

--How careers are outfitted: From immediately as much as zigzag. instead of a chain of linear occupation paths, lattice enterprises provide personalized strategies for progress and improvement. Lattice how you can construct careers allure and have interaction the simplest expertise and create flexible staff compatible to answer change.

--How paintings will get performed: From the place you visit what you do. instead of anticipating humans to take a seat at their desks clocking face time from nine to five, lattice companies provide recommendations for while, the place, and the way humans do their paintings. Lattice how one can paintings bring up productiveness and retention whereas expanding strategic flexibility in enterprise operations.

--How participation is fostered: From top-down to all-in. rather than directed, top-down communications, lattice enterprises nurture obvious cultures, offering a number of methods for individuals to percentage rules, examine, and group. Lattice how you can take part faucet the ability of an inclusive place of work to force innovation, development, and agility.

Offering even more than conception, the authors illustrate the lattice version utilizing wealthy, in-depth case experiences of exemplars together with Cisco, Deloitte LLP, and Thomson Reuters. in addition they discover the altering function each one person performs in directing his or her personal lattice journey.

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Knowledge and service work dominate the economy. Compared with traditional production processes, much of this work is less bound to a physical location. As a result of technological advances and globalization, workers are less tethered to traditional offices and set hours. And the makeup of work is changing, too. S. 2 The workforce isn’t what it used to be either. Family structures have changed markedly, with profound implications for a corporate ladder model predicated on a household arrangement that, by and large, no longer exists to support it.

In other words, companies are being judged by how well they recognize that engagement is no longer a static, cookie-cutter formula and the extent to which they respond by delivering individualized workplace experiences. THE POWER OF OPTIONS Lattice organizations provide options to customize work experiences over time, offering a multitude of ways to build careers, to work, and to participate. This strategy, in turn, benefits both the business and the individual. Just as mass product customization enables a cost-effective approach to offer customers more choices, workplace customization can be leveraged to craft cost-effective approaches to offer employees greater levels of choice, a topic we explore further in chapter 2.

The Converging Expectations of Women and Men Women’s numerical importance within companies has increased dramatically since they began working outside the home in significant numbers starting in the 1970s. S. 15 The number of women who work outside the home is directly related to their rate of higher education. 18 As more women have entered the workforce, the expectations of women and men have changed. With education and increased workforce participation, women have developed high career aspirations.

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