I recently came across a poll conducted by Corporate Rebels. They asked what are you looking for most in your (new) dream job?
About 300 folks answered:
10.8% (Higher Salary & Status)
16.9% (Collaboration & Social interaction)
44.3% (Freedom, Trust & Flexibility)
28.0% (Autonomy, Responsibility & Accountability)
Are you surprised by those results?
If you could describe the workplace of your dreams, what would it look like?
Over years Rob Goffee, emeritus professor of organizational behavior at the London Business School, and Gareth Jones, visiting professor at the IE Business School in Madrid, have been asking hundreds of executives all over the world to do just that.
It sounds like a pretty radical project, doesn’t it?
And yet what they found – and published in 2015* – was surprisingly simple:
It’s a company …
- where individual differences are nurtured;
- information is not suppressed or spun;
- the company adds value to employees, rather than merely extracting it from them;
- the organization stands for something meaningful;
- the work itself is intrinsically rewarding & there are no stupid rules.
Are you closing in on all five yet?
If not and if you are not happy with YOUR status quo, I have this follow-on question for YOU:
Do you rent or do you own your job?
“Do what you love is for amateurs. Love what you do is the mantra for professionals.” – Seth Godin
*The book where the above professors published their findings “Why Should Anyone Work Here”: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159541-why-should-anyone-work-here