The Bata philosophy holds that just as a person has quality partner relationships, he or she can create quality and healthy work performance. By healthy work performance, the Bata company meant sustainable performance, which in practice meant that it appealed to the fact that if a person spends a lot of time only on work and does not have enough energy left for relationships, this is only a temporary benefit for the work itself. Supposedly, within three years at the latest, there is a point at which a person starts to experience what is known as 'disgust with work', what we now call burnout. How to prevent this? Do quality relationships with partners and families naturally force people to maintain a healthy balance between work and personal life, which is a prerequisite for sustainable growth in both spheres?
How to do it? According to the Bata philosophy, through relationships education. This was primarily based on finding attraction to oneself and then choosing the right life partner. For the Bata philosophy, partner life is built on shared values. How to find and develop them? How to learn to communicate and share properly? How not to get tired of your partner, just as your partner should not get tired of you?
Do you feel like you are reading a topic that is not suitable for a corporate lecture? Why should a firm address the personal relationships of its associates? Because, as mentioned in the introduction, just as people have quality personal relationships, so, supposedly, does their work performance. Bata knew well that no one teaches people how to build quality relationships, and yet, that relationships are crucial to a company's performance, so it took it upon itself to do so.
Lecturer: Gabriela Končitíková
