Employees Doing Their Thing

Forget about “new” management ideas, where management unleashes its employees to carry out their own ideas.

The concept that a company does best when employees are free to operate with managerial theories of their own, sounds good and acceptable to most employees, but is often thought up by those who have never run a real business.

Besides, this management feature depends on the nature of the business. It may sometimes be o.k. for a creative type of operation, but not the average firm, where a creative mess that could result would be unthinkable.

Employee suggestions are always useful and should be considered. But if they were really creative and effective bosses, in most instances the employees would have been the real employers.