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BUILDING TRUST. METHOD ON TRANSFORMATION IN THE PRESENT WORLD
Piotr ZIELAK1
Human Life – Transformations of Culture
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 3-4 (70-71) 2011, Publication date: 17 October 2011
Abstract The pace of life and changes of surroundings at the beginning of XXI century seem to be huge and nothing shows that this is about to slow down. Individuals and whole organizations meet problems not only with development, but also with adaptation and keeping up for transformations in today’s stormy organizational surroundings. Individuals and organizations applyt different adaptive strategies. However using the the notion of strategy, related to a longer time perspective, can provoke the discussion about the adequacy of the tool to the situation. More well-founded seems to be the conception of organizations applying various tactics or simply the endeavor towards the largest possible elasticity. It seems however, that there exists at least one, relative universal strategy which gives good advice about how to deal with changeability. This strategy, or the way how to manage the situation, could be the conscious building of trust. For individuals it gives a feeling of safety and of motivation. On the level of societies it contributes to an enlargement of efficiency and prosperity. Trust is trump, what confirm appropriate explorations. It most probably contributes to the enlargement, expansion and survival of various organisms – starting from single persons up to societies.
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
E-mail: piotr.zielak@gmail.com