Amelia Anghinoni PTSTA-P
Matteo Sala PTSTA-P
Field of audience: O,P

Language: Italian (translated to English)
Level of audience: All

We share A. Rotondo’s view (2019), who believes that the underlying goal of an organization is to develop shared responsibility among its members regarding its productive tasks. Organizational contexts, both public and private, are constantly affected by processes of change. Our times urge those changes that can address the needs and support the opportunity to bring new energy (Laugeri, 2010) within the organization, as well as among its employees or consultants. However, if responsibility is not acknowledged within a system, a so-called “dysfunctional symbiosis” (Schmid Messmer, 2005) may set in, thus feeding physiological defensive processes.
We can understand and give meaning to such processes using the theory of Passive Behaviors (Schiff, 1975) or through the four types of Invitations proposed by Schmid and Messmer (2005) to enter a dysfunctional symbiosis, resulting in pushing others to take improper responsibility.
The workshop is conceived and designed with a methodology of experiential learning work, in which the participants – through moments of discussion and activation – will be invited to reflect on the processes of passivity with reference to an assessment of a responsibility crisis experienced or observed in their own organizational contexts. The aim is that of gaining a proactive view of participation in an organizational context, moving “from discounting to giving value” (Schmid) and supporting a process of Emerging Change (Laugeri, 2010).
Giving value by focusing on the quality of the relationships is functional in countering feelings of loneliness and supporting a possible restoring of the image one has of themselves and of their way of being in the world (Ranci, 2001).