A Glimpse At A Workplace Of The Future: Valve. FedEx Days - Atlassian Development. PDF/typeifororgs.pdf. Barry's Blog: Workplace Autonomy. Good morning. "And the beat goes on...................... " Autonomy / Creativity / Efficiency and Productivity: Got an email from Daniel Pink with a piece from the toolkit in his new book "Drive" -- the excerpted piece entitled: "Nine Ways to Improve Your Company, Office or Group" - dealing largely with the question of workplace motivation. One interesting toolkit suggestion was to conduct a Workplace Autonomy Audit to help get an idea of how much autonomy the people in your organization really have. Here's the excerpt:"Ask everyone in your department or on your team to respond to these four questions with a numerical ranking (using a scale of 0 to 10, with 0 meaning"almost none" and 10 meaning a "huge amount".) 1. How much autonomy do you have over your tasks at work------your main responsibilities and what you do in a given day?
2. Make sure all responses are anonymous. That said, I wonder if we are too blindly loyal to such concepts. Have a great week. Don't QuitBarry. Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation. ROWE. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] CultureRx - Official Trainers of the Results-Only Work EnvironmentWashington Post Article"video". CNBC. June 11, 2008. Conlin, Michelle (June 10, 2008). Autonomy – Leading Employees into Wide Open Spaces.