Postmodern Management: The Emerging Partnership Between Employees and Stockholders Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a very strange book that combines a 19th century evolutionary behavioral view of societal evolution with a misreading of quantum theories of physics to build a blindly procapitalist vision of an e-future in which workers escape the irrationalities and troubles of our economy by being given stock options by their suddenly trustworthy employers. The author seems unaware of many developments in the behavioral, economic and social sciences during the last thirty years, and attempts overcome these shortcomings by declaring his "new" managerial strategies by declaring them to be "postmodern." It would be interesting to know what Wallace makes of the post-internet economic collapse that he believed would make us all happy, well paid laborers. The world he predicted does not exist and never will, and this book is a record of how so many Americans were tricked into believing their bosses as they were tricked to work for worthless stock notes.

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Postmodern management, according to Wallace, moves beyond the shortcomings of the bureaucratic management style pervasive in American business today. Bureaucracy, the standard model of organizations, is too inflexible, cost-rigid, and job defensive to survive in a postmodern world. Bureaucracies rely on paying workers fixed prices to do specific jobs. According to a postmodern management model, a partnership between employees and stockholders would lead to more productive work by relating pay to corporate performance and encouraging more flexible and cooperative teamwork. Wallace provides a workable guideline to ease the transition from the bureaucratic form of structure to postmodern partnership. His argument, that dependence on hired labor for permanent staff is at the root of dysfunctional bureaucracy, will provoke discussion and interest among corporate executives, teachers and students of management and organizational behavior, and others interested in today's workplace.