Abstract
Is contemporary avant-garde management inspired by Hegel's concept of the genus (speciesú being? Is man, through the diversity of his actions and the development of technology, approaching the qualities that until now only God represented, as Feuerbach thought? Is there a transcendence of the economic paradigms of classical capitalism as predicted by Marx? And what is actually the future of work? What social trends do we find in contemporary business? Does the future of work belong to man, or will man belong to work? In recent years, the commercial sector has been experiencing changes in the organisation of work and the way in which the means of production are handled. Some sectors have been slow to change, others have been ahead of the curve.
The common denominator of these changes permeating the world of work is the humanisation of work. Capitalism is moving from a focus on monetary profit to a focus on people and the self-fulfilling meaning of their actions.
Thus, according to the latest trends in management, HR and leadership, the work of the future will not be about maximising profit, but about the meaningful fulfilment of human life. Anarchist anthropologist David Greaber postulates that the only future of human work will be caring, based on his observation of trends.
All other work will sooner or later be taken over by machines. We are already witnessing a paradigm shift away from the notion of humans as human resources to humans as actors in interpersonal relations.
From the ideal of Fordist production culminating in the concept of the concentration camp, the concept of work is turning into the ideal of self-development and free self-creation of the individual, whose uniqueness completes the perfection of the civilizational whole. It is in these respects, then, that contemporary avant-garde managerial, organisational and ownership concepts resonate with the conception of man as a species being in German classical philosophy.
Coincidence? Intention? Or the necessity of the development of human history? The lecture on the topic of changes in the contemporary labour process and the transformation of man from a part of the production gear to a self-creating species being will be given by the anthropologist of labour and PhD student of FHS UK Mgr. Radek Holodňák, who has long been dealing with trends in business and management from a philosophical-anthropological point of view.