- Many organizational theories implicitly assume the basic premise that “a contract of employment keeps you on the clock about five days a week, and that you have a boss and subordinates, and the boss has the right of command.”
- As Drucker points out, expert groups are hard to govern that way. - Drucker. The knowledge society is not a society of bosses and subordinates.
- So, rather, it is the volunteer organizations and open source communities, etc., where there is no pay, no restraints, no command authority, etc., that can be helpful.
- When we think about Organizational Survival, we tend to focus on the Survival of gold, because we bind people by employment contracts.
- If you remove that condition, Survival of the human spirit is more important to the survival of the organization.
- When people’s hearts and minds don’t survive in a for-profit company, job turnover jumps and the money is damaged.
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