[lbo-talk] new book on managerial ideologies

[Carl Remick]

>From: joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net>
>
>Ernesto Gantman wrote:
>
>>The book's compelling conclusion is that instead of a tendency towards
>>increasing theoretical refinement, what is more evident is a trend towards
>>fictionalization, which ends in the contemporary paradigm of flatter, more
>>participative and democratic organizational forms.
>
>Really? Boy I haven't seen this anywhere I've worked in the last twenty 
>years...except for very, very small companies.

I don't think organizational forms have gotten more participative and 
democratic.  I do agree that workers have gotten flattened.

Carl