New publication: "New Work as the key to more workplace-based learning? - Promising thoughts vs. actual work culture" (Gierosz & Goller, 2024)

New Work as the key to more workplace-based learning? - Promising thoughts vs. actual work culture

In a recent short publication, Alina Gierosz and Prof. Dr. Michael Goller discuss the role of New Work as a driver of workplace-based learning using the example of controlling.

Advancing digitalization and globalization are changing the world of work and require new approaches to meet individual and corporate requirements. Against this backdrop, New Work, a concept based on the social philosopher Frithjof Bergmann, is experiencing a renaissance and promises more autonomy, flexibility and participation for employees.

The text sheds light on how aspects of New Work can create ideal conditions for self-directed learning, particularly through flat hierarchies and flexible working models such as working from home. It emphasizes that these new forms of work promote individual learning processes on the one hand, but can also lead to social alienation and a restriction of team dynamics on the other.

The publication offers interesting insights into the connection between modern work culture and learning for both academics and practitioners in vocational training and personnel development. It becomes clear that New Work certainly has the potential to promote learning processes, but also poses challenges that need to be overcome.

The article is part of the thematic issue "Wandel sozialer Standards und soziale Transformation in der beruflichen Bildung" of berufsbildung - Zeitschrift für Theorie-Praxis-Dialog, edited by Susan Seeber and Viola Deutscher.

Gierosz, A., & Goller, M. (2024). New Work as the key to more workplace-based learning? Promising thoughts vs. actual work culture. berufsbildung, 78(4), 11-14.

The DOI is not yet working, but the article is available on the WBV website: www.wbv.de/shop/New-Work-als-Schluessel-zu-mehr-arbeitsplatznahem-Lernen-BB2404W004 and soon also in the UTB elibrary.

Information on the entire thematic issue "Changing social standards and social transformation in vocational education and training" and the articles it contains can be found here:
www.zeitschrift-berufsbildung.de/archiv/98-wandel-sozialer-standards-und-soziale-transformation-in-der-beruflichen-bildung