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This is just intrinsic to how businesses are run. Businesses are run by decision makers. Decision makers delegate tasks to do-ers. If do-ers mess up, it is sol
by onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
This is just intrinsic to how businesses are run.
Businesses are run by decision makers. Decision makers delegate tasks to do-ers. If do-ers mess up, it is solely their fault for underdelivering (in the eyes of the delegator/decision-maker).
The idea that do-ers can make decisions or inversely - that decision makers can do (anything beside delegate) is alien in business.
- infamouscow 4y agoAnd if decision makers mess up, it is solely the decision makers fault for making a bad decision. Of course, holding decision makers accountable for their error never happens in real life, so the do-ers go elsewhere. I don't understand why this is so hard for people to grasp.
- goodpoint 4y ago> The idea that do-ers can make decisions or inversely - that decision makers can do (anything beside delegate) is alien in business. No. Knowledge workers are never mere executors, by definition. Additionally, not all business exists to benefit only the "decision makers". There are such things as coops, social utility companies and no profits.
- hinkley 4y agoWe generally are talking capitalists when discussing such things, and those other people you list are “socialists”.
- malermeister 4y agoThis sounds a lot like the Marxist theory of alienation [0] in practice. Because do-ers can't decide what they do, they get alienated from their work product and get apathetic. The fact that it is happening during a capitalist crisis only adds strength to the theory. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx's_theory_of_alienation