Paper for Topic T5, STAGE 4, Level 1 – Micro. The paper shows necessary perspectives in Co-operative Education, Training and capacity Building. There is no real participation without responsibility. There is no... [ view full abstract ]
Paper for Topic T5, STAGE 4, Level 1 – Micro. The paper shows necessary perspectives in Co-operative Education, Training and capacity Building. There is no real participation without responsibility. There is no responsibility without efficacy. There is no efficacy without expertise. This means that any democratic workplaces, and especially co-operatives, should end up as common meritocratic institutions. When we look at what participative companies look like (Stocki, et al. 2012; Laloux, 2014) we see they are nothing but common meritocracies (Stocki, 2014). The problem is that many a time the creators of such companies are often not aware of what they really do. As many experts, they are not aware of what their expertise is about. If we want to make such companies more popular we have to go beyond charismatic leaders and create management schools teaching how to create common meritocracy systems. In my research, I am trying to investigate nine key fields of expertise that pertain such systems. For the beginning, I offer a diagnosis of the level of expertise people have on each level, in order to find out how far they are from the ideal. I propose to diagnose the following domains:
1. Listening skill; 2. Cooperation orientation; 3. Expertise in personal development; 4. Economic literacy; 5. Business literacy; 6. Implicit co-operative knowledge (or, if you prefer, Implicit knowledge of managing values-oriented organizations).; 7. Co-operative or other company for whom you work; 8. Decision making; 9. Lifestyle; 10. Agency.
In my paper, I am going to present the tools developed during the first year of the research and first preliminary results of the pilot research on one small co-operative and representatives of other co-ops and companies.
The research is sponsored by the European Union’s 7th FP International Outgoing Fellowship Grant (623051) web page: www.stocki.org
Laloux, F. (2014). Reinventing organizations. Brussels: Nelson Parker.
Stocki, Ryszard. Common Meritocracy Challenge. how members of the Mexican co-operative “pascual” tack between oligarchy and democracy. International Journal of Co-operative Management, 7,(1) 9-31
Stocki, R., Prokopowicz, P., & Żmuda, G. (2012). Pełna partycypacja w zarządzaniu: tajemnica sukcesu największych eksperymentów menedżerskich świata – second edition. Warsaw: Oficyna a Wolters Kluwer business.
