west reacts to east
Most of the time when you do not understand something, especially from a public source, it is not your fault. Have faith in yourself. Clear writing is logical and, depending on the degree of your knowledge, understandable.
People purposely write or set up processes unclearly so you can not understand. Reasons for this may or may not be conscious. The worker bee who does not understand the given task will have to work from shaky groundings to complete it. The end result is exactly as the ultimate authority consciously desired.
This is why workers at a company are put in and only know their small microcosm. Misguided or manipulative leaders do not want the worker to be able to wrap his or her mind around the entire organization. They want the worker in their place.
In light of this, it is so funny to be learning in my operations management class about companies like Toyota who value empowered workers. Business academics are trying to articulate why Toyota has pulled ahead. Oddly enough, Toyota's decision making is done, not only by the managers, but also by the people on the floor. The people who know what is going on. This is really a simple, logical concept which authoritarian organizations are trying to articulate (really, I am laughing).
This reactionary attitude by some American companies and my class towards Toyota is the epitome of hypercapitalism.
People purposely write or set up processes unclearly so you can not understand. Reasons for this may or may not be conscious. The worker bee who does not understand the given task will have to work from shaky groundings to complete it. The end result is exactly as the ultimate authority consciously desired.
This is why workers at a company are put in and only know their small microcosm. Misguided or manipulative leaders do not want the worker to be able to wrap his or her mind around the entire organization. They want the worker in their place.
In light of this, it is so funny to be learning in my operations management class about companies like Toyota who value empowered workers. Business academics are trying to articulate why Toyota has pulled ahead. Oddly enough, Toyota's decision making is done, not only by the managers, but also by the people on the floor. The people who know what is going on. This is really a simple, logical concept which authoritarian organizations are trying to articulate (really, I am laughing).
This reactionary attitude by some American companies and my class towards Toyota is the epitome of hypercapitalism.
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