2024-02-11

  • In order to accumulate knowledge capital and SOC in a company, doesn’t it have to be membership type employment (long term), rather than job type?
  • Unlike money or plant equipment, which can be owned by a “corporation” separate from individual employees, knowledge is owned by individuals.
  • Social relational capital is also accumulated in “concrete individuals” and “relationships between concrete individuals.
  • If that is the case, then the company can only maintain these capitals if that “specific individual” remains in the company.

Even with membership-based employment, individuals still have the freedom to resign, so it is necessary to implement “measures to allow individuals to choose not to resign of their own free will”. - left taken after the compulsory maternity leave and so on could be positioned as having been that. - Blurring of company boundaries and allowing individuals to take their preferred distance from the campfire (usually large, and for gathering and singing, etc.) of the company vision [Campfire Management

  • Community formation in the form of “alumni” and other forms to prevent dissipation for retirees who would be external if separated by employment relationships.

(2/11) with kawahiii: The mode of information distribution affects the structure of the organization. (2/11) with udarnik: Joint Labor Organization of the Former Yugoslavia (2/12) Isn’t formal knowledge impossible? (2/12) with masanork Retention strategies are needed regardless of whether it is a job-based or membership-based strategy.

Reconsider in light of these discussions

  • There are three types of “knowledge.”

    • A: Unlanguageable
    • B: Can be verbalized but not yet verbalized due to lack of ability or time
    • C: Linguisticized
  • C can be stored in the company, detached from humans.

    • A, on the contrary, cannot be accumulated in isolation from humans.
      • (At least until craftsmanship-mimicking AI is put to practical use.)
    • So the only thing we can control is B
      • B changes to C with sufficient capacity and time, but individual inventory increases depending on workload and other factors.
      • Language is encouraged by asking questions to those who are carrying B inventory.
        • Conversations are conducted through an online text communication tool that automatically saves the exchange as a C
        • This is one of the customer values that groupware offers
  • I’ve noticed that there are also two “social capital” books, and I’ve noticed some shifting interpretations between them and the reader.

  • Retention strategies are needed regardless of whether it is a job or membership type.

    • This one certainly does.
    • The membership-based employment component, “lifetime employment,” that’s retention.
    • The “seniority by length of service” that was once used as an incentive for this is nowadays widely said to be damaging to the acquisition of young talent.

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