Last week, I wrote about what leaders can do to create what Margaret Wheatley called islands of sanity: microclimates of connection, trust, and meaningful work that offer team members some respite ...

What Covid-19 tells us about collective responsibility and managing risk in a changing world. When John Donne said “No man is an island”, he expressed the essence of the social contract — a concept ...

After I gave a speech about Gen-Z in the workplace, a human resources director in the audience asked if we could chat briefly. She explained that their Gen-Z employees would not stop asking for—even ...

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (ILO News) – Organized by the ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV), the regional conference provides a platform for a dialogue on the evolving social contract in the ...

While the term "social contract" has not been wide­ly used in America, the idea of some mutual obligation between society and the individuals that comprise it is deep-seated in the American view of ...

Between 1948 and 1950, the United Auto Workers and General Motors negotiated an agreement that shaped what later became known as the post-World War II social contract. The Treaty of Detroit provided a ...