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Stakeholder Day

To start the Stakeholder’s Day, Karasek's will present a short version of the Day 1 Keynote, integrating Innovative Work and Health Work approaches, extending to the scale of a New Economy – introducing new “vocabularies,” and new integrating concepts.  To this will be added some of the primary themes from Expert’s Plenary review on the previous day.

I. Goals and Structure of Stakeholder Discussions

The Stakeholders’ will meet in what are called in conference jargon: Max-Mix Groups – each with eight persons per table, with maximum diversity of participants at each table.   This small-group format will give all participants ample opportunity to speak.

Stakeholders will be begin with the same overall Goals as the experts, but their meeting process will be much more flexible.  Groups should be given considerable flexibility to move in their own constructive directions - but prevented from “getting stuck,” or running out of momentum or direction with help of Expert assistance.

After the starting presentation at the beginning of the day, the groups will develop their own agenda’s to review the topics presented. All groups will select a chair -person (time keeper/moderator), and recording secretary.  Experts will be available to assist agenda development.

Experts can participate as “Expert Advisors – Available-Upon-Request” during the Stakeholder meeting – or as needed in the opinion of Expert observers, as they review each Group’s progress during the day. For example: A Shopping Mall of Expert Input Tables could be sitting centrally in the Stakeholders conference area – each with a “Banner” designating its area of expertise - available when needed. 

Goal A: Understanding New Forms of Productivity and Health at Work

All stakeholders will be asked to focus attention on the Social and Psychological costs and benefits of work organization and economic structure – And – at all times - to compare these new approaches to our standard market economic cost/benefit analytic frameworks and conclusions reached in these same areas. 

A big challenge in the Stakeholder Groups is that while many of these concepts maybe already somewhat “known,” they are often referred to using totally different vocabularies across groups, and with different context/ power or status orientations.

Goal B: New Combinations: toward an Expanded – or New - Economy

The real goal for all of the Sessions is to engage the expertise of all of the participants to sketch out the linkages between these New forms of Productivity (i.e. Conducive Production, and related topics) and Health (work and social stress –related illness risks/developmental wellbeing) - that move understanding and solution spaces beyond those accessible to our conventional market analytic categories.

Again: we expect that the real power of this program is in COMBINING the potential PRODUCTIVITY advantages with new HEALTH advantages - and then reviewing their EFFECTIVENESS and FEASIBILITY in this combined form. We expect this combination of these new approaches to have much more utility than they have in the separate and partial dialogues of different stakeholder group members. 

In terms of Effectiveness and Feasibility, this means that both "How To" issues - for the Combinations - at both the Micro and Macro levels - must be addressed: i.e. both the Organization level and Political Economy/Institutional Policy level.

II. The Stakeholder Meeting Process

A. Session 1: New Health and Productivity “Content Combinations (1½ hr.) The beginning of the session will start with topics on Productivity first and then add the Health topics. The second half of the Session explores these same Linkages but in reverse order: starting with topics on Health first, and then adding the Productivity issues.

         A Possibility - if found to be necessary by conference chair: A Midday of Progress Review - with Expert’s commentary?

B. Session 2: "How-To-Do-It." (1½ hr.)

Groups will be asked to focus on the processes and implications: of managing organizations in the New Economy (Theme 3), or of addressing the new political-economic challenges and institutional policies implied by the New Economy approach (Theme 4).

C. Session 3: Plenary. Conference Integrated Plenary Session, at the end of the day, will begin with a report ofeach Max-Mix Groups brief review of viewpoints and linkages found in their sessions (i.e. via a summary PPT slide).

Then both the Expert and the Stakeholder together, lead by the Conference co-organizers, will discuss the overall results of both the Stakeholder’s Meetings and the Expert’s Plenary results from Day1.

Then the organizers will lead a discussion of the next steps – focusing now on Stakeholder needs and interests. What shall be the next steps?  What groups need to meet together?  What new structures can be seen as needed?  Shall another broad Stakeholder meeting organized? Who shall sponsor other meetings?  What shall be the format?