We Have Let Work ‘Slip’

François Dupuy
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Chapter 1 in Business for the 21st Century, 2011, pp 11-39 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A word on this notion of ‘managerial sloth’, to begin with, since it may give the impression that yesterday’s people were less courageous or less aware when it came to managing organizations than those of today. This is obviously not so. Quite simply, each generation of managers works in a very different set of economic circumstances from the previous one, and this largely explains the choices they make. To make a comparison: in the 1970s, there weren’t feckless governments on the one hand and virtuous ones on the other hand — they all faced tough constraints and adapted their policies in consequence. Day-to-day judgements on those policies were either polemics or ex post analyses of their consequences.

Keywords: 21st Century; Trade Union; Civil Service; Work Rate; Labour Relation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230307728_2

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