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COVID-19’s Uncomfortable Revelations About Agile and Sustainable Organizations in a VUCA World
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-16 , DOI: 10.1177/0021886320936263
Christopher G. Worley 1, 2 , Claudy Jules 3
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Organizations confronting the realities of a COVID-19 world find themselves managing challenging and unprecedented demands: redeploying talent, establishing remote workforces, building needed capabilities, propping up distressed supply chains, contributing to humanitarian efforts, choosing among firing/furloughing/ retaining employees, and planning for reopening amid uncertainty. In this context, the crisis has revealed three implications for research and practice on agile and sustainable organizations in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. First, how to characterize the COVID virus and our response to it is unclear; what is clear is that we were unprepared. Second, despite the rhetoric, too many organizations did not have the capabilities to respond. Saying you are agile does not make it so. Third, the COVID-19 pandemic reveals our community’s silence on structural inequality (e.g., financial, social, and racial). We enabled unethical positions from the safety of our positivistic and supposedly neutral values. As reference, we define organization agility as the capability to make timely, effective, and sustained change when it results in a performance advantage (Worley et al., 2014). Sustainable organizations expand the term “performance” to address the optimization of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes as well as financial results. Since the relative emphasis on these outcomes changes over time and the methods for achieving them change, there is no sustainability without agility (Lawler & Worley, 2011).

中文翻译:

COVID-19 关于 VUCA 世界中敏捷和可持续组织的令人不安的启示

面对 COVID-19 世界现实的组织发现自己在管理具有挑战性和前所未有的需求:重新部署人才、建立远程劳动力、建立所需的能力、支持陷入困境的供应链、为人道主义工作做出贡献、在解雇/休假/留住员工中进行选择,以及计划在不确定性中重新开放。在此背景下,这场危机揭示了对易变、不确定、复杂和模糊 (VUCA) 环境中敏捷和可持续组织的研究和实践的三个影响。首先,如何表征 COVID 病毒以及我们对它的反应尚不清楚;很明显,我们没有做好准备。其次,尽管言辞激烈,但仍有太多组织没有能力做出回应。说你很敏捷并不能说明问题。第三,COVID-19 大流行揭示了我们社区对结构性不平等(例如,金融、社会和种族)的沉默。我们从我们的实证主义和所谓的中立价值观的安全性中启用了不道德的立场。作为参考,我们将组织敏捷性定义为在带来绩效优势时做出及时、有效和持续变革的能力(Worley 等,2014)。可持续组织扩展了“绩效”一词,以解决环境、社会和治理 (ESG) 结果以及财务结果的优化问题。由于对这些结果的相对重视会随着时间的推移而发生变化,实现这些结果的方法也在发生变化,因此没有敏捷性就没有可持续性(Lawler & Worley,2011 年)。我们从我们的实证主义和所谓的中立价值观的安全性中启用了不道德的立场。作为参考,我们将组织敏捷性定义为在带来绩效优势时做出及时、有效和持续变革的能力(Worley 等,2014)。可持续组织扩展了“绩效”一词,以解决环境、社会和治理 (ESG) 结果以及财务结果的优化问题。由于对这些成果的相对重视会随着时间的推移而发生变化,实现这些成果的方法也在发生变化,因此没有敏捷性就没有可持续性(Lawler & Worley,2011 年)。我们从我们的实证主义和所谓的中立价值观的安全性中启用了不道德的立场。作为参考,我们将组织敏捷性定义为在带来绩效优势时做出及时、有效和持续变革的能力(Worley 等,2014)。可持续组织扩展了“绩效”一词,以解决环境、社会和治理 (ESG) 结果以及财务结果的优化问题。由于对这些成果的相对重视会随着时间的推移而发生变化,实现这些成果的方法也在发生变化,因此没有敏捷性就没有可持续性(Lawler & Worley,2011 年)。当它带来性能优势时,持续变化(Worley 等,2014)。可持续组织扩展了“绩效”一词,以解决环境、社会和治理 (ESG) 结果以及财务结果的优化问题。由于对这些成果的相对重视会随着时间的推移而发生变化,实现这些成果的方法也在发生变化,因此没有敏捷性就没有可持续性(Lawler & Worley,2011 年)。当它带来性能优势时,持续变化(Worley 等,2014)。可持续组织扩展了“绩效”一词,以解决环境、社会和治理 (ESG) 结果以及财务结果的优化问题。由于对这些成果的相对重视会随着时间的推移而发生变化,实现这些成果的方法也在发生变化,因此没有敏捷性就没有可持续性(Lawler & Worley,2011 年)。
更新日期:2020-06-16
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