Re: Organizational Complexity
I'm a doctoral student studying organizational theory and would like to get some feedback on what makes organizations complex (people, competitors, etc.). I'd prefer if the respondents were those working at a senior level (director, VP, etc.). From your perspective (current or past employers), what makes organizations so complex? Feel free to address the question from a quality perspective.
Is your statement which I show in bold because you feel that those of lower status have nothing to contribute?
I'm not a VP, or Director, or any type of senior person within my organization, nor will I ever be, but I'll give you this to ponder....In my lifetime of work, in many and varied fields of endeavor I have determined that more often than not complexity of organizations or within organizations comes about through...
Pride
Ignorance
Empire building
Senior leadership has a historical tendency to complicate the simple and make hard the easy.
If leadership could and would truly lead...not manage, boss, tyrannize, lord over, subjigate, or try to pontificate, but lead as eaders many organizations we see with umpteen levels of heirarcy and the demands those heirachies create, would flatten out, run smoother and more effeciently and have greater effectiveness.
Is the above what you wanted?