“New rules of attraction, retention, and attrition”
“Organizations are tailoring employee value propositions to individualized preferences in ways that can help close the gap between what today’s workers want and what companies need.”
School Response: “School organization assumed that all students learn in the
same way: one size fits all.”
The media had devoted a lot of time and space to the impact of COVID on student learning. Not only are achievement scores at an all-time low, but, absenteeism is at an all-time high. School officialdom appears satisfied with all the blame for deterioration of learning in our schools on COVID. However, in previous blogs on trends in the workforce, I have described a school system, that for the last two decades at least, has continue to support school organizations and pedagogies—one size fits all— that not only is in opposition to the values expressed in their mission statements, but, runs counter to a younger generation of employees who value training, development, flexibility, autonomy and opportunities to make a difference: they just don’t want to make money just to make money—they want to make an impact. These values became the norm during COVID when corporations were forced into working conditions that valued autonomy and flexibility. This new generation of students in subtle ways is sending a message to institutional schooling, that like their private sector counterparts, what organization environments they are attracted to and will perform well in.
Alan C. Jones 