Arthur Cordell wrote:
> On a more brutal note, if an occupying force tries to keep an occupied
> village of 100 in line by shooting one villager (and this to a large degree
> is successful) do we say that those who get the message are now self
> censoring or have effective selection processes taken place. Whatever, an
> effective alignment of occupier values and goals is now put in place.
> People understand what is wanted and understand the price to pay for
> changing the alignment.
This analogy is incomplete, because in a company, the "occupying force"
(or occupational force ;-}) also controls WHO can BECOME a "villager" in
the first place. This allows inherent and complete selection processes from
the start, largely reducing the need/efforts for later alignment measures.
Also, there's a SELF-selection of employees (for style and branch of company)
that largely lacks in the village example.
Chris
