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bacause management has roots in military. eg book extreme ownership

• regularfry 3y ago
  If only it were that benign. Management has its roots in slavery. A significant part of why early company-owners in the US preferred slaves is not because their labour was free - they were expensive assets, particularly skilled ones - but because free workers were less compliant to hierarchical control. They could walk off the job, they expected their opinions to be listened to, and you couldn't whip them into compliance. There's basically a straight line from plantations through Gantt then Taylor and his Scientific Management to McKinsey's Budgetary Control.
  • max_hammer 3y ago
    Even today in many countries schooling system is for only making model workers for factories https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_model_school https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_model_school
  • specialist 3y ago
    You're both right. There's always some mixing of the two. Culturally northern corporations tend towards the West Point Peter Drucker management by objectives schools of thought. Whereas the culturally southern plantation class is as you describe. Walmart is always my go to example. This also roughly tracks geographically with strength of Labor. To no one's suprise, the neoliberal (confederate) generations long assault on Labor means the southern style has been waxing. Hopefully, with the youngs' (Gen Y & Z) new found enthuasism for Labor -- in the form of life, liberty, and pursuit of justice -- the slave owners grip on our society will begin to wane.
• DwnVoteHoneyPot 3y ago
  If you actually read the book Extreme Ownership, you'd realize how wrong your comment is. It advocates decentralization and ownership from the bottom up.