Tag: organizational democracy
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7 Core Principles for Authentic Engagement
Apologies to the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, but I’ve stolen your great presentation to the Obama Administration’s Open Government Directive group. I’m applying it to decision-making processes within authentic organizations…. Tell me how well you think it works. In previous posts about layoffs, alternatives to layoffs, and organizational decision-making processes, I’ve argued that…
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Which is preferable, Layoffs or Alternatives to Layoffs?
My esteemed colleague and fellow Michigan PhD alum, Aneil Mishra, is a well-known expert on the ‘softer’ organizational affects of downsizing and layoffs: morale, commitment and trust. Writing today about furloughs at GM on his blog Total Trust, Aneil mentions that "In our research on downsizing, we’ve found that across-the-board cost cutting like this (specifically,…