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In reply to the discussion: Which type of workplace would you prefer to work in? [View all]FreeJoe
(1,039 posts)39. Yes, but...
It sounds like there are some examples in small co-ops or some company off in a Spain, but they are by far the exception and I don't see a major push by employers or employees to emulate them. I'll stick with what is known to work and continue to evolve it.
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That is a nice idea, and I've been thinking about why I didn't include it in the options.
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#13
It's not easy. I have been offered many opportunities to grow my business in the past...
Walk away
Jan 2013
#38
I'm currently working in a place like that and it's working out quite well
Posteritatis
Jan 2013
#19
Had it not occurred to you that, possibly, the reason so many of your co-workers weren't interested
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#12
Well, collective management usually involves its own equivalent of parliamentary procedure
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#24
I like working in an environment in which someone has commandeered the radio, plays the
2on2u
Jan 2013
#27
Not a "waste the boss" type. myself...what you CAN say, though, is that Milton was a real example
Ken Burch
Jan 2013
#30
And they certainly do push, fortunately I refuse to reach my breaking point.... I just pack it
2on2u
Jan 2013
#31
The problem with cooperative management and management by concensus is that loud pushy people
Nikia
Jan 2013
#33
Actually, not so. A well-run co-op will have a strong framework for participation.
Luminous Animal
Jan 2013
#36