"I favor general use of the psychic-prison metaphor to free people from the traps of favored ways of thinking and to unleash their power and creativity."
--Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization
"We cannot just remodel the prison. No, we've got to get out of it."Interview with Gareth Morgan on the 2nd Edition of Images of Organization Workplace Issues (draft outline) Fear of Being Oneself in the Workplace (draft) ~~Psychic Prison Quotes~~
--W. Edwards Deming
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A lose-lose game
Advice from a former employment attorney:
"In the end, employment litigation is a lose-lose game. Plaintiffs I represented who received hundreds of thousands of dollars were usually broke within three years. And companies I sued didn't end up treating employees more fairly; they just made their employee handbook thicker. I truly believe the system causes more damage than benefit, and that's why I'm glad I have been out of it for the last 10 years."
In regard to making the employee handbook thicker, William L. White writes:
"'The last act of a dying organization is a thicker rule book.' The need for rules to control staff members marks a dramatic change in mutual respect, loyalty, and the esprit de corps that characterized earlier stages of organizational life."
