[lbo-talk] new book on managerial ideologies

[Eugene Vilensky]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:03:26 +0000, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >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.

3 heirarchical managers and 250 shipping/recieving clerks, with
designated team leaders who hold no pay or benefit advantages over the
rest of the flock.  It's a beautiful system.