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Nice Work is Radio 4's essential guide to working life in Britain today - we aim to cut through the jargon to get to the heart of what matters.
Email the programme at nicework@bbc.co.uk
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"Presenting Nice Work is fascinating because of the wide range of stories you hear, and the people you get to meet. Not only do we cover the big picture trends and theories, we get up close to the real experience of work, from the people who actually do it.
Over the next six weeks we'll be looking at the pros and cons of work experience; investigative claims that Britain is fast becoming a nation of malingerers and updating you on disability issues. We'll also be looking into the spiritual side of working life and finding out about the help available for people who want to return to work after a lengthy career break."
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Who rules the roost in your office? |
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Power
How much power do you have at work?
Whatever you do for a living, you probably have a boss. Even though we call them by their first names nowadays, managers still wield an enormous amount of power over us. They tell us what to do, they monitor our performance, decide if we deserve promotion or a pay rise.
But do we really need to work this way? Not according to US company, WL Gore - manufactures of gore-tex. Nice Work visits the organisation's Scottish operations to find out what it's like to work for a company which believes that staff can manage themselves.
And Philippa Lamb interviews Professor Tom Malone of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of the book, The Future of Work.
He argues that the time has now come for companies to embrace democracy in much the same way that countries did more than 200 years ago. He believes that in the future power will be in the hands of workers, not managers.
Also, the programme looks at a more traditional form of worker power - the role of the unions.
The amount of working days lost to industrial action, at the height of the miners' strike in 1984, was 27 million. In the nineties it was a different story – on average less than a million days were lost per annum.
Now though, industrial action is on the rise again. And one of the main reasons for that is pensions. Philippa Lamb asks if the loss of final salary schemes is going to heighten industrial unrest.
Guests
Alan Cave
Associate Director, The Work Foundation
David Astley
Director of Benefits, National Association of Pension Funds
W.L. Gore & Associates
Tom Malone
Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, author of the Future of Work
Mark Goyder
Director, Tomorrow’s Company
Cary Cooper
Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, Lancaster Business School
Contact Us
You can contact us by emailing: nicework@bbc.co.uk.
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RELATED LINKS
The Work Foundation
National Association of Pension Funds
W.L. Gore & Associates
Tom Malone
Tomorrow’s Company
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