Work ethic - A paradigm shift?

Work ethic is a hot topic in business today and educational worlds. Yet, how can we define this hybrid phrase with the word work means more than a specific result, and the word ethics being more than the values ​​that enhance that outcome?

When we say we're going to work, work becomes the place of work. When we say that we are working, the implication is that we are engaged in a work-related activity and should be running one or more specific tasks. However, the word work in the global economy of today is not easy to indicate the specific outcomes much less measurable.

Years ago, when our economy was based on agriculture, farmers said they go to work the fields. Their work, or more precisely the results of their work could be seen from the fields plowed with bales of hay stacked. In today's technology and service driven economy, the outcomes of workers are hardly recognizable, but what you notice is their behavior.

Now, ethics is a difficult word to define, as is the exploitation of results. This is aptly demonstrated by the variety of expectations like being at work or school on time, doing quality work, being self-directed, with self-initiative, or to be positive for both partners and associates and customers. Ethics, from these expectations, understanding the behavior of internal staff or what I think are really attitudes.

Let's step out of the box and build a new and more accurate term that meets the expectations of both business and education world. First, we ask we are more concerned about the behavior or attitudes? If we recognize that it is the attitudes that drive behaviors that generate results, this suggests that the attitude of taxpayers have the greatest impact on results.

So, since the behavior has several meanings, perhaps we can substitute performance for behavior. Performance can be measured expectations the organization has provided accurate and complete, valid assessments that do not penalize taxpayers with a well-communicated strategic plan. Through well-articulated objectives with consistent leadership and management, participants have the opportunity to improve their performance to achieve measurable results.

Attitudes of performance appear, therefore, to better describe the desired results and expectations that we as employers, teachers or even parents. Like all of us taxpayers, focusing on attitudes in our initial experiences of performance, we have the means to improve ourselves, our businesses and most importantly, our communities ....