Against management stupidity
Dienstag, 9. November 2010 - 08:56
There is a third choice [the others: disappearance, the (failing) attempt to achieve political power]: that the union rethink its function. The union might reinvent itself as the organ of society – and of the employing institution – concerned with human potential and human achievement, and with optimizing the human resource altogether. The union would still have the role as the representative of the employees against management stupidity, management arbitrariness, and management abuse of power. This would not be an adversarial relationship, but would resemble that of the Scandinavian Ombudsman. The union would work with the management on productivity and quality, on keeping the enterprise competitive, and thus maintaining the members’ jobs and their incomes.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker: The New Realities (chapter 13), 1989