Big corporations differ little from government when it comes to bloated staffs and budgets. The one difference is that they can say goodbye to large numbers of employees. In government, that's a challenge almost impossible to achieve. Public employee unions have far more clout than the private-sector unions.
For good reason. Public-sector unions elect the decision-makers (legislators), but private-sector unions do not elect boards of directors or corporate officers. (They may be working on that, but as of now their power is limited to strikes.)
How do those corporate bureaucracies get started?
Once a business gets beyond 100 employees, top management begins to lose touch with what's going on in the trenches. At that point, the supervisors commence to build their own prestige by gradually increasing the number of people they supervise. They create a "need" for more help when, in fact, they need to quit acting like lords and masters and perform more of the nitty gritty themselves.
Read more: Corporate bureaucracy thrives | Pacific Business News
Wait a second. Does that mean that having bottom-up management might actually reduce the need for expanded bureaucracy? Nah lets just let the market decide. They know best.
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Date: 17/11/10 15:39 (UTC)How to bend the rules of corporate bureaucracy (http://www.usatoday.com/money/jobcenter/workplace/rules/2002-11-08-corporate-bureaucracy_x.htm)
Corporate bureaucracy thrives (http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2000/02/28/editorial2.html)
Big corporations differ little from government when it comes to bloated staffs and budgets. The one difference is that they can say goodbye to large numbers of employees. In government, that's a challenge almost impossible to achieve. Public employee unions have far more clout than the private-sector unions.
For good reason. Public-sector unions elect the decision-makers (legislators), but private-sector unions do not elect boards of directors or corporate officers. (They may be working on that, but as of now their power is limited to strikes.)
How do those corporate bureaucracies get started?
Once a business gets beyond 100 employees, top management begins to lose touch with what's going on in the trenches. At that point, the supervisors commence to build their own prestige by gradually increasing the number of people they supervise. They create a "need" for more help when, in fact, they need to quit acting like lords and masters and perform more of the nitty gritty themselves.
Read more: Corporate bureaucracy thrives | Pacific Business News
Wait a second. Does that mean that having bottom-up management might actually reduce the need for expanded bureaucracy? Nah lets just let the market decide. They know best.