Human Relations, Team & Organizational Development

Internal activities related to Human Relations (HR), Team Development (TD) and Organizational Development (OD) are essential for oikos International. For us, people are at the core of what we do. This is why we want to put a lot of emphasis on health, wellbeing and development. The efforts of the HR/TD/OD sub-team are driven by a desire to create opportunities that nurture our team, and also to lead by example: we wish to be the pioneers and learn from pioneers, also to inspire our chapters. This also means to reinvent ourselves and develop our organization and our way of working together, in short: organizational development. We are working passionately to find courageous ways to (re)structure our team and organization so we can more diligently and joyfully live up to our purpose. This includes, but is not limited to more decentralized, self-organized ways of working, increasing the agility of our governance structure and making space for our people to show up as whole human beings.

We wish to offer and nurture an environment and culture at work in which employees and volunteers have fun and feel at ease, comfortable and like they can voice their opinions or initiate ideas or projects. Our organisational mission of empowering students applies also to our own team. Fair compensation for our work, healthy working hours and working time, regular individual calls in order to check in on everyone’s well being, be it at work or at home, are topics we currently work on.

We put in place several spaces and habits that are designed to nurture a healthy work culture. Examples are the Feedback Fika to ask for feedback, or casual Google chat rooms, e.g. dedicated to anything we want to celebrate or to share experiences. Find the field guides here.