--- joanna bujes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 03:47 AM 10/12/2002 +0000, you wrote: > >The sheer complexity of modern technologies > requires that R&D be a team > >effort; no one individual acting alone can > supply the expertise needed to > >advance the state of the art. If you have a > team effort, you need > >administrators to coordinate efforts, allocate > resources, etc. > > You need administrative/coordinating functions; > but these don't necessarily > have to become the domain of professional > administrators. On the whole, > workers are much savvier about how to > coordinate/administrate their work > than administrators. At least, i find this to > be so in the software business. > > Joanna >
It's the same in the military, where senior enlisted really make the administrative, managerial officers look good (or bad, as on one ship where, after the officers accused NCOs and lower enlisted , wrongly, of sabotaging equipment--the problem was missed maintenance intervals that officers supervised and faulty equipment--the enlisted decided not to find any Soviet subs for a while). I suspect it is true everywhere. I do see how the Japanese companies integrate assembly line with office work--for example, office workers participating in quality control circles at the factory next to the office building. But in the new new economy, most Americans say about the Japanese: they work hard and are still good at making things. But Americans are a separate class meant to control the world, right? (I guess that managerial obliviousness equals moral certitude.) C. Jannuzi __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
