Vargas Workplace Institute Organizational chaos can best be defined as a historical moment in which workers and organizations loose a sense of mutual commitment, and opportunities for both worker and organization are ambiguous. This radical transformation in the idea of work, offers both worker and organization a new opportunity for recreating a social contract with each other.
Organizations are in the midst of chaos.
As companies flatten their organizational structure, and downsize their workforce, managers and workers have found themselves in work environments that have redefined the meaning of worker, work, and corporate culture. These fundamental changes in the workplace have left many of us in a state of mental paralysis. We are not sure what to do with the skills and knowledge that we have acquired during our work life. Many of us are living each day with the threat of being forced to leave our workplace before we are ready. We are faced with the difficult task of reinventing ourselves in the midst of chaos, for it breaks the covenant that we all have had with society and workplaces.