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Silo Organizations and their Unwanted Side-Effects

In: Business for the 21st Century

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  • François Dupuy

    (Mesa Research)

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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.

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  • François Dupuy, 2011. "Silo Organizations and their Unwanted Side-Effects," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Business for the 21st Century, chapter 2, pages 40-58, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-30772-8_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230307728_3
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