Duty of Care and Lego Serious Play With Benjamin Bader | TNN22

The New Nomad

When you hear digital nomads, you automatically think of people who have all the time in the world to travel yet earning a sustainable income. You think of flexibility. You think of FREEDOM. What most people don’t realize is that it takes a lot to be a digital nomad. As a laptop-wielding warrior, traveling to different countries means that you deal with timezone differences. You deal with safety concerns. Your ultimate weapon is to educate yourself of the risks in this lifestyle. And that’s where Ben Bader comes into play.

In this episode of The New Nomad, Ben talks about the importance of duty of care and duty of loyalty to companies and their employees. He, together with hosts Andrew Jernigan and Allen Koski, gave tips on how to place boundaries when it comes to working from anywhere. They talked about why it is not convenient for companies and employers to have their employees work the nine-to-five when there is a better choice, especially with the globalization movement. This episode is definitely filled with things that you, as a digital nomad, will find useful sooner or later.

[3:50] Duty of care: beyond the legal definition

[7:28] Employees and employer well-being partnership

[11:00] Trust begets trust

[12:28] The rules of engagement when it comes to work schedule

[16:13] Using Legos to bring out the inner child in people

[20:48] The duty of loyalty

GUEST BIO:
Benjamin is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Human Resource Management at Newcastle University Business School, UK. He is a highly qualified academic and has been published in journals such as Human Resource Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Journal of International Management.

Moreover, he lead an academic network funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), in which German scholars worked on topics related to Expatriate Management. Benjamin was awarded his doctoral degree (Dr. rer. pol.) in 2013 from the University of Hamburg and his first degree in Business Administration from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Benjamin has also studied at the American University in Washington, DC, and his areas of expertise include research on Expatriate Management, Diversity & Inclusion Management, as well as Top Management Team (TMT) research. Benjamin has solid experience of working in industry and has worked at Merrill Lynch Global Private Client Group, Washington, DC and at the UVEX Winter Holding GmbH & Co KG in Industrial Sales and product management.
Benjamin Bader Links:
Website: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/business-school/staff/profile/benjaminbader.html#background
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-bader/detail/photo/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/benjamin_bader?lang=en
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