Silo Organizations and their Unwanted Side-Effects

François Dupuy
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Chapter 2 in Business for the 21st Century, 2011, pp 40-58 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Criticizing work in silos, in ‘organ pipes’, is as commonplace as noting the persistence and spread of this mode of organization. There is a simple reason for this, which we will discuss later in this chapter, namely that this way of doing things was originally introduced as a ‘scientific mode of the organization of work’ (Taylor, Fayolle). It served to define clear tasks that could be performed in a predictable manner by individuals, each of them interchangeable. As stated in the previous chapter, this reduces the dependence on human unpredictability to a minimum. Deviance is neither acceptable nor tolerated, since it would be seen as an expression of disagreement with ‘science’, which would in turn be either morally perverse or a sign of psychological disturbance. Yet that was regarded as the basis of mass production.

Keywords: 21st Century; Management Team; Senior Manager; Senior Executive; Organ Pipe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230307728_3

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