Workplace Democracy

Deetz's presents the idea of democracy in the workplace in the text. This places emphasis on what our text calls "multiple stakeholder model" in which organizations take into account many different groups thoughts on how they perform their business, not just the stakeholders. In this model there 4 essential ways by which this may be achieved. First all members in an organization must think like an owner (234). This would put all employees in a position where all employees are part of decisions and accountable for their work. Second management and actually work must be reintegrated (234). This points out that paying some people to watch over other who are actually doing work is ineffective and not financially sound. Third only important information should be distributed. This emphasizes how people must have information on the real effects of their work ,not only omn their customer but also on society, the enviroment, and other nations. Fourth the workplace should be more bottom up. This would allow all members of the organization to negotiate and make decisions rather than allowing decisions to be in the hands of a few individuals.

Deetz's idea sounds great but may be impractical. This idea would be a huge shift for most organizations. I think in functioning the idea would work well but the transtition from how things currently are to a system where everyone had input and felt invested might be too much of a shock. Also I thin there are a lot of people who want structure. It can be easier at times to have a structurw in place and go into work knowign that you just have to carry out your tasks. It really depends on the current work culture and personalities of individuals within whether this method could really work in a given organization.