Metadata
- Authors: Nicolai J. Foss Peter G. Klein
- Full Title:: Rethinking Hierarchy
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: ✍️ Déjame sin trabajo, por favor,
- URL:: https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/rethinking-hierarchy/?utm_source=pocket_saves
- Finished date:: 2023-05-07
Highlights
under the right conditions, having such hierarchies in place is the best way to handle the coordination and cooperation problems that beset human interactions.1 They allow human intelligence and creativity to flourish on a larger scale. They provide a larger structure, with predictability and accountability, for specialists to do their work. (View Highlight)
Meanwhile, individual views on politics, religion, and culture also inform our attitudes toward hierarchies — such as whether we value autonomy or admire authoritarian figures (View Highlight)
balance two opposing forces. The first is the desire, common to us all, for empowerment and autonomy, which helps companies mobilize employees’ creativity and exploit their unique knowledge and capabilities. The other is the need — particularly in environments characterized by rapid change and interdependent activities across the enterprise — to exercise managerial authority on a large scale. (View Highlight)