On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:02 -0700, Steven E. Harris wrote: > Christoph Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One possible explanation why C# got introduced at the place I work at > > is that the manager of the software department found it in his best > > career interest to reduce everybody to the abysmally low standards of > > the least capable programmer, whose code he demanded to be > > "respected", thereby creating the artificial need for a lot of more > > management, and an artificial inflation of the headcount of his > > department. > > That's a classic example of the same sort of technology-drive > "deskilling" process described in David F. Noble's book /Forces of > Production/¹. > > Managers -- or the capital owners -- make technology choices not to > produce the best technical results, but to drive down the competence > level required to do the work, remove power and wage entitlement from > the skilled technicians, and further widen the power divide to ensure > their superior position. The perception is not that skilled workers can > help the management reach its goals; rather, managers see the workers as > a threat to controlled, devalued, and, if at all possible -- and not > necessarily profitably so -- eliminated. Maintenance of power comes > before economic benefit. > > It's all in the book. > > > Footnotes: > ¹ > http://www.amazon.com/Forces-Production-History-Industrial-Automation/dp/0195040465 > > -- > Steven E. Harris > And here I was thinking that you English speaking folks had to wait for this book: http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Brain-Management-Efficiency-Intelligence/dp/3540718370
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