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The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
There are a lot of approaches to organization design, but none are reliable and construct-valid. It ignores how personhood and work are intertwined. In addition, the organization isn't a self-aware social singularity, so employees are differentiated as futuristic cogs who 'energize' themselves autonomously. A strategy that can only focus on one... See more
Nathan Snyder • The Problem with Organization Design
One can even argue that the modern corporation and work arrangements are tools for the suppression of intelligence: For turning humans into small interchangeable parts, performing narrow tasks. The corporation as a whole is productive, but every component within it is designed for and encouraged not to think too much in order to maintain the
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