How to Create a Fair Workplace: Crash Course Business: Soft Skills #15
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Danny
So this is maybe more organizational structure than soft skills but one of the best ways to ensure fairness and justice in the workplace is to institute democratic ownership & decision-making. The problem with ensuring fairness and justice in a traditional company structure is that you are relying on one (or a few) individual's view on justice and fairness to decide was is fair or not, this is essentially bias towards that or those individual(s) POV on fairness and justice. By implementing democratic ownership & decision-making you can suppress this bias, by bringing everybody involved with the business into matters concerning fairness and justice. This would not eliminate the issue discussed here as concerns for managers, but it is a far better safeguard for fairness and justice than relying on the management staff's capabilities/willingness to ensure organizational justice.
One way of doing this, which I recently finished a project on is called the FairShares Model, it democratically divides ownership, and therefore decision-making power, between four stakeholder groups; Founders, Labour, Users and Investors. The idea is that since all groups are vital to the organization they should all be recognized accordingly, unlike the traditional model, where, in most cases, only founders and investors have ownership and thus ultimately decision-making power.
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So this is maybe more organizational structure than soft skills but one of the best ways to ensure fairness and justice in the workplace is to institute democratic ownership & decision-making. The problem with ensuring fairness and justice in a traditional company structure is that you are relying on one (or a few) individual's view on justice and fairness to decide was is fair or not, this is essentially bias towards that or those individual(s) POV on fairness and justice. By implementing democratic ownership & decision-making you can suppress this bias, by bringing everybody involved with the business into matters concerning fairness and justice. This would not eliminate the issue discussed here as concerns for managers, but it is a far better safeguard for fairness and justice than relying on the management staff's capabilities/willingness to ensure organizational justice.
One way of doing this, which I recently finished a project on is called the FairShares Model, it democratically divides ownership, and therefore decision-making power, between four stakeholder groups; Founders, Labour, Users and Investors. The idea is that since all groups are vital to the organization they should all be recognized accordingly, unlike the traditional model, where, in most cases, only founders and investors have ownership and thus ultimately decision-making power.
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therealquade
This is the only video from this crash course that has shown up in my subscription feed. I was expecting this video to go one way and be biased, and it turns out it wasn't and I've been pleasantly surprised, and this gives me new ways to express what I believe. The most important things are Procedural fairness with merit based outcome. I see need based outcome to be in direct conflict with procedural fairness, and a flat equality regardless of merit to also be in conflict with procedural fairness. I think a way to have an objective rather than subjective measure of merit by codifying what the merits are and having it be public in the workplace (or political system) to be procedurally fair. for instance in a marketing department, if 5 employees make an advertisement for the same thing, one fair judgement of merit could be a ratio of clicks to views, meaning how many people or times is an ad needed to be seen to get a click, as a measure of the effectiveness of the ad. then simply average all ratios of a given employee to get an average ratio for that employee, and whoever has the best / most effective ratio, has the highest merit. this is something that could be publicly stated in-office. Judgments of merit or need do not have to be subjective. They can be objective.
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This is the only video from this crash course that has shown up in my subscription feed. I was expecting this video to go one way and be biased, and it turns out it wasn't and I've been pleasantly surprised, and this gives me new ways to express what I believe. The most important things are Procedural fairness with merit based outcome. I see need based outcome to be in direct conflict with procedural fairness, and a flat equality regardless of merit to also be in conflict with procedural fairness. I think a way to have an objective rather than subjective measure of merit by codifying what the merits are and having it be public in the workplace (or political system) to be procedurally fair. for instance in a marketing department, if 5 employees make an advertisement for the same thing, one fair judgement of merit could be a ratio of clicks to views, meaning how many people or times is an ad needed to be seen to get a click, as a measure of the effectiveness of the ad. then simply average all ratios of a given employee to get an average ratio for that employee, and whoever has the best / most effective ratio, has the highest merit. this is something that could be publicly stated in-office. Judgments of merit or need do not have to be subjective. They can be objective.
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aaron4820
Sometimes I feel like I could have explained certain encounters or experience I've had by brushing it aside as due to me being a minority or the colour of my skin, but actually, it turns out it really didn't matter once I proved that I can do my job, when I thought people looked at me a certain way or indirectly asked if I'm all they sent, I could have gone to a racial place (when in reality it was likely due to my young appearance, but at the end of the day, when I could do what I was there to do, none of those things mattered, just. do your job well, don't overthink it, merit is everything, and if you think you aren't paid what you're worth, negotiate, if you don't ask for more, you won't get it.
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Sometimes I feel like I could have explained certain encounters or experience I've had by brushing it aside as due to me being a minority or the colour of my skin, but actually, it turns out it really didn't matter once I proved that I can do my job, when I thought people looked at me a certain way or indirectly asked if I'm all they sent, I could have gone to a racial place (when in reality it was likely due to my young appearance, but at the end of the day, when I could do what I was there to do, none of those things mattered, just. do your job well, don't overthink it, merit is everything, and if you think you aren't paid what you're worth, negotiate, if you don't ask for more, you won't get it.
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Haitaka123
5: 22 No mention of Unions? Disappointing, honestly, as this has been a consistent powerhouse system for empowering the employees to negotiate fairly with employees. Very often, once the initial big changes occur, employees will vote against major changes their Union potential could bargain for, because they want a stable market as much as the employers do. They just want some quality-of-life things, too.
And if the employer goes against contractual obligations or fair conduct, the Union can be there in a heartbeat to stop it.
No messy personal lawsuits required, although certainly still possible.
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5: 22 No mention of Unions? Disappointing, honestly, as this has been a consistent powerhouse system for empowering the employees to negotiate fairly with employees. Very often, once the initial big changes occur, employees will vote against major changes their Union potential could bargain for, because they want a stable market as much as the employers do. They just want some quality-of-life things, too.
And if the employer goes against contractual obligations or fair conduct, the Union can be there in a heartbeat to stop it.
No messy personal lawsuits required, although certainly still possible.
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Deep
It would be difficult, but if you guys taught programming languages like you teach everything else it would be unbelievable. I'm not talking about computer basics, I mean explain how a language like C# works with your unbeatable animation videos and personal connections. People from India do an outstanding job of providing content, but it's difficult to comprehend and lacks a personal connection. Unfortunately, I have watched over 300 hours of their videos and it was quite a grind. Software development attracts a lot of dedicated self-taught students.
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It would be difficult, but if you guys taught programming languages like you teach everything else it would be unbelievable. I'm not talking about computer basics, I mean explain how a language like C# works with your unbeatable animation videos and personal connections. People from India do an outstanding job of providing content, but it's difficult to comprehend and lacks a personal connection. Unfortunately, I have watched over 300 hours of their videos and it was quite a grind. Software development attracts a lot of dedicated self-taught students.
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Patrick
Waiting for the next European History video to go up and this gets posted, lollll. But my input is this: merit should decide pay and opportunity. -Equal opportunity- if you can complete the job like others who also complete the job. Businesses everywhere will fail if more hours and paychecks are given exclusively to people who require more time than others to complete a job. Only apply to a job if you are physically and mentally able to do it to the same extent as the other workers.
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Waiting for the next European History video to go up and this gets posted, lollll. But my input is this: merit should decide pay and opportunity. -Equal opportunity- if you can complete the job like others who also complete the job. Businesses everywhere will fail if more hours and paychecks are given exclusively to people who require more time than others to complete a job. Only apply to a job if you are physically and mentally able to do it to the same extent as the other workers.
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daniel
A dyslexic person takes 25% longer due to their linguistic abilities difference.
You normally pay $100 for a 4 hour working day.
Should you expect the dyslexic person to work 5 hours for $100? Or 4 hours but pay them only $80? Or 4 hours for $100 and expect others to make up the difference/ consumer pay more because you happen to employ a slower person?
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A dyslexic person takes 25% longer due to their linguistic abilities difference.
You normally pay $100 for a 4 hour working day.
Should you expect the dyslexic person to work 5 hours for $100? Or 4 hours but pay them only $80? Or 4 hours for $100 and expect others to make up the difference/ consumer pay more because you happen to employ a slower person?
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Sadly, a large subset of our species is composed of deranged simians for whom the golden rule can't apply. If your boss happens to be one such mammal--who likely got there through nepotism--then you're out of luck; you may as well roll yourself in tar and feather, fantasize about being a night owl and try to get a gig in J. K Rowling's next movie.
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Sadly, a large subset of our species is composed of deranged simians for whom the golden rule can't apply. If your boss happens to be one such mammal--who likely got there through nepotism--then you're out of luck; you may as well roll yourself in tar and feather, fantasize about being a night owl and try to get a gig in J. K Rowling's next movie.
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HJ
-Fairness is the #1 thing that makes the workplace functional- -- citation needed. I simply don't believe that. If that were the case, we'd be communists by now.
Communism is fair, the problem however is, is that it's NOT functional.
Not a fan of really subjective videos like these.
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-Fairness is the #1 thing that makes the workplace functional- -- citation needed. I simply don't believe that. If that were the case, we'd be communists by now.
Communism is fair, the problem however is, is that it's NOT functional.
Not a fan of really subjective videos like these.
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Soumil
I want to watch this series SO BADLY, but every single time, I close the tab involuntarily when I hear the word -Internets-.
This is the first time I've been able to survive long enough to leave a comment. Bye now
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I want to watch this series SO BADLY, but every single time, I close the tab involuntarily when I hear the word -Internets-.
This is the first time I've been able to survive long enough to leave a comment. Bye now
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