Do you feel like companies operate like dictatorships?
Where the employees have no say and all the commands come from the top. If you speak ill of upper management, you face retaliation. Things you say can be used against you later in the form of a bad review or being let go #tech
Yes they do. Because its efficient. You are trading off freedom and consensus for efficiency. And thats all right because I don’t need the same level of freedom from my employer as i need from my government. So stop whining and get to work.
Damn you really drank the Amazon koolaid. Bezos must be proud as he stacks more billions
Why do Amazonians always comment - “get to work”, “go back to work” in here? I have seen it multiple times in Blind. No I won’t get to work. F amazon
It's more like a mafia or a cult than a dictatorship. The uppers can't do the work themselves, but want to force people to do more and more. So they pay you to do the dirty job. If at any point you don't do their will or you point things out that show them in a negative light, you will be made to suffer. They might be the most incompetent buffoon in the mafia (ahem, company) and yet, you will suffer.
Unlike a dictatorship, it’s easy as hell to go from one company to another.
Not really. Hard to walk away from a dictator. Pretty easy to walk away from a company
That’s pretty much what I meant, edited for clarity
You should look into Organizational Analysis. Coursera has a nice course on it. Think of decision making in terms of 3 concentric circles. The innermost circle makes the overall decisions, the second layer is the specialists that make decisions on specific domains, and the outermost circle is transient employees etc. handling task execution
So basically you want to bad mouth your colleagues and upper management, say whatever shit you want to, do whatever you want and get away with it. Thats not a democracy, that would be anarchy. While all leaders can be more open to feedback, do ponder once about the implications of what you are asking. Lets say you worked your way up to be VP, how open will you be to hearing feedback about how to run your org from say some kid who is fresh out of college? Do you think you will be okay if that kid calls you an idiot to your face? Think about it.
I get two-way feedback mechanisms are difficult. But we would still be much better off with some ways to call out executives for being morons
I strongly believe in the whole do unto others thing. Would you like to be called out a moron in public? Also understand that any leadership position entails making decisions that are unpopular. Doesn’t necessarily mean they are bad for business. If we operated like a democracy, everyone would want to maximize salary and minimize work. And absolutely no one would want to work on the legacy and less glamorous projects. It just wont work
It's generally not a dictatorship. It's more like an ancient Greek style democracy with shareholders getting a say. There's also corporate law as a guardrail, so a bit of a republic element. --- Companies with dual class voting structures could be closer to an authoritarian/dictatorship in their operation, but still not a lot.