Does the organisation you work in treat people as its weakest link?
These words were spoken by Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner this morning on the Today Show on Radio 4. He was talking about the risk of misuse of information in relation to mobile phone details. But his words sounds strikingly inhuman.
What he meant was, in fact, this: ‘We’ve created an environment in which your mobile phone personal data will very likely be exploited, misused or otherwise abused. If it is, it will, however, be because people in organisations are inherently bad and untrustworthy, not because we made it possible in the first place’.
His words are typical of corporate irresponsibility. They’re also typical of a way of thinking that structures our organisations (business and social) to ‘contain’ the worst employee, rather than ‘liberate’ the best.
Stand back and take a look at the organisation you work in; maybe the one you set up. Is it built to contain the worst possible employee, or liberate the best?
