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Corporations are typically highly coordinated, hierarchical organizations with a chain of command that leads from the CEO to frontline employees. No, CEO's are
by istjohn 7y ago
Corporations are typically highly coordinated, hierarchical organizations with a chain of command that leads from the CEO to frontline employees. No, CEO's are not omniscient, but they have significant control over company culture and policy and should bear responsibility for patterns of corporate misbehavior. Corporations are absolutely capable of weighing benefits and risks to itself and outside stakeholders and making and acting on decisions.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoAnd managers are motivated to locally optimize their part of the whole. CEO can blather on all they want about corporate morals. But if the managers are rewarded on how efficiently they deploy their resources (and they are), then any rational manager will do that. Locally optimize. Just look at what measure the manager's bonus depends upon, and you can substantially predict their behavior. Giant companies are not just a CEO and some managers. There are typically half a dozen layers between the CEO and the footsoldier. And its the middle layer folks that create the true behavior of the beast.
- wutbrodo 7y agoThis is incredibly untrue of Google, and every other organization I've ever worked in (excluding the tiny ones). I can't imagine how you could've come to this conclusion while ever having worked at a corporation (or indeed, any institution above a certain very low floor of employees). Note that this isn't directly relevant to the case under discussion, which was coordinated at the CEO level