Wrangling over responsibility blocks agility in the company
The agile organization is already highly significant for companies today. But the existing agile methods are currently used only sporadically, as a recently published study found.
In the minds of many companies, the agile organization is already very important. At least, that's according to 51 percent of respondents to the HR Report 2018, which regularly examines key HR issues in organizations. Interestingly, the younger the respondents are and the higher their hierarchical position, the higher its importance is considered to be. Over the next three years, their importance will increase significantly to 69 percent.
However, the existing agile methods are currently used only sporadically: Just 19 percent of respondents use Design Thinking and only 11 percent use Scrum. This is shown by the results of this year's report, which Hays and the Institute for Employment and Employability (IBE) jointly prepared. Over 1000 organizations were surveyed. This year's focus topic is "agile organization".
Above all, their greater flexibility (55 percent) and speed (51 percent) speak in favor of the agile organization as opposed to the classic line organization. However, there are still major hurdles on the way there. The respondents primarily cite the clarification of responsibilities (31 percent), the realignment of existing processes and structures (28 percent) and the lack of trust (26 percent) within the organization as the greatest areas of tension between the two organizational forms.
Therefore, a lot needs to change, especially in the corporate culture. The top cultural issues that organizations need to work on are: Employees must take on more responsibility in the future (33 percent), develop a greater ability to organize themselves in teams, and deal with critical issues more openly (32 percent each).
Source: www.hays.ch
On the topic of "Agile Methods", you can also read our Report in ORGANISATOR 12/2017.
