Hi Don, The problem you outline--top folks deciding for the bottom folks causing the entire org to become stagnant is happening everywhere, including of course the federal system...if you consider employees to be "members." This is a kind of authoritarianism best understood by reading Likert's early books in which he outlines systems 1 through 4. Essentially few if any organizations ever share power and encourage upward flow of information (system 4). So the other three sytems are variations on authoritarianism, which is the default mode of managing world-wide. System 1 is punishing, 2 is benevolent, and 3 is consultative....but all three are top down decisionmaking orgs. In other words, authoritarian top down decisionmaking is transorganizationally normative....so of course membership orgs are going to move that way too.... Why is it this way? Because of the desire of the top people to have power and control and the bottom people to be apathetic and powerless. Sounds like the USA, right?
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