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Actually I'm being silly, there is a good solution: Workplace Democracy. You can fool the higher ups come promotion time, but you can't fool all the people all
by Ericson2314 5y ago
Actually I'm being silly, there is a good solution: Workplace Democracy. You can fool the higher ups come promotion time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
Mondragon please get in the tech biz.
- andrey_utkin 5y agoCould you please show some real-world examples of this practice?
- Ericson2314 5y agoI am familiar with tech co-ops, but they are small, and so not good evidence.
- nsonha 5y agoDidn't Donal Trump fool a lot of people in a democracy? And how does this have anything to do with metrics?
- patrick451 5y agoNo, he didn't fool us.
- nsonha 5y agoyeah right, he didn't fool anyone /s
- Ericson2314 5y agoWhen there are just a few decision makers, a standard evaluation procedure is usually necessary for fairness / reproducibility. When there as many evaluators as evaluatees, no standard evaluation procedure is needed on the theory that all the different ways and biases will cancel out. That doesn't work over time, as clearly America's electorate gets interested in different things, but I am less worried about that for co-ops. The hope for co-ops vs state democracy is two fold. Firstly, because people do work many hours at their job, but don't necessarily spend any time running the state, I hope they are more informed and engaged. Secondly, the "both options are bad, I hate this" problem should be addressed by A, proportional representation (just like should be done with state democracy states), but also B of switching jobs. The barrier of switching jobs is much lower than immigrating, which ought to more than any thing else reign in defeatist apathy. And Co-ops can still fire people, remember.