Jeanne Bell: Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships
Jeanne Bell: Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships
"If we can shift from thinking of our organizational relationships as “human resources” to be managed—their capital to be extracted over the life of the relationship—and shift to a frame of deep reciprocity, we will find as leaders that it is indeed those relationships above all else that allow our organizations to accomplish the most extraordinary things."-- Jeanne Bell, MNA
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Submitted by Jennifer Hancock
How we think about human resources matter. Are human resources - resources to be exploited? Or collaborators in capital development? This article - from Non-profit Quarterly - on how non-profits can and should transform how they think of their employees is relevant to all people interested in humanistic management.
"Rather than conceiving of these forms of [human] capital as something our organizations extract, we should think of them as precious resources to