Giving your team the autonomy they want is good for your business and can make a real impact to your corporate culture and creating a positive workplace. Our 2021 research, Autonomy to the People, uncovered the data to prove this. This ground-breaking research was the precursor to our 2022 research ‘Powering Profits and Prosperity’, which delves further into why autonomous working styles are the way forward for successful and growing businesses.
Our initial research showed a clear disconnect between the way organisations operate, and the way people want them to. This year we found that greater autonomy is also a powerful psychological lever for engaging employees and helping them grow as individuals - as well as delivering benefits to the organisation.
And there’s a number of good, research-backed reasons that organisations should consider moving towards an autonomous style. The benefits of being part of such an organisation aren’t limited to the fact that people are able to shape their work and work environment. Our analysis shows organisations employing an autonomous approach to work, experience better business outcomes across every single outcome we measured.
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What do people want from their organisations? What makes a good organisation? And what makes an organisation good? It’s no surprise to find salary and job security at the top of the list. These elements of a job remain absolutely core to an employee’s perception of their organisation, and they are particularly important in the current economic climate.
Our latest research, Powering Profits and Prosperity, was carried out during a time of global volatility: economic conditions began to tighten, the war in Ukraine affected commodity and utility prices, and the cost of living became a major political issue in Australia.
Through this research we sought to establish if there was a way in which Australian organisations could better deliver on both profits and long-term prosperity. While economic factors understandably remain top of employees’ concerns, societal and psychological factors are also important considerations for working Australians, across every generation.
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