While both Drucker and Caggins appear to have opposing claims, both provide useful ways of understanding today's organizational environment. Organizations are both destabilizing and community seeking. Organizations change by renewing themselves while workers seek continuity in work and in work environments. Organizations and workers are experiencing chaos because the rules of the partnerships in the workplace have become too fluid. Workers must become self-contained, expecting to be utilized in a variety of workplaces.
Workers have to become more generalized as well as specialized.
This new worker will be more responsive to the shifting needs of workplaces. A new social function of an organization must include not only its responsibility as a social organization, but must perceive itself as an extension of the community in which it is a participant. As a repository, the new organization will have to become reliant on institutions of learning to create the necessary support for workers. The relationship of work and workplace might become more like a library whereby both the borrower and the lender benefits. The whole society benefits from a prepared workforce.