New Work Culture: Case Study of the Written Teaching Material Production Program at the State Distance Education University, Costa Rica
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https://doi.org/10.22458/caes.v17i1.6627Keywords:
work culture, freedom, self-responsibility, meaning, development, social responsibility, textbook production, distance educactionAbstract
The principles of New Work (a new work culture) outlined in the New Work Charter (Väth et al., 2019) are based on the concepts of freedom, self-determination, and community, proposed in 2004 by Frithjof Bergmann (1930-2021), the father of New Work. New Work is a novel proposal due to its humanistic approach to self-realization, which redefines the purpose of employment, its structure, and its relationship to the individual, in contrast to the traditional view of employment as an obligation and a means of obtaining income. This study aims to compare the principles of New Work with the work practices of the Program for the Production of Written Didactic Material (PROMADE) at the State Distance University of Costa Rica and its consequent impact on the quality of the materials it produces. The study concludes that PROMADE demonstrates a high level of application of New Work principles and can therefore be considered a success story in a Latin American university.
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