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Requisite organization theory and employment relations
Author(s) -
Mackin Bruce Hearn
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of applied psychoanalytic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.314
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1556-9187
pISSN - 1742-3341
DOI - 10.1002/aps.115
Subject(s) - chief executive officer , management , sociology , officer , macro , economics , political science , law , computer science , programming language
The ramifications for employment relations from the Elliott Jaques' organizational theories requires understanding the ideas as well as the way they have been implemented. Australian experience has been profound due to Jaques' direct collaboration with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of one of Australia's most important companies. The apparent success of the application of his models led other companies to implement similar organizational systems. Several of them are linked to management efforts to deunionize and decollectivize their employment relations. Such outcomes are not in keeping with Jaques' theory since his whole work reveals a wider concern with equity. His broader macro‐economic concerns are essential to the proper operation of requisite organizations. Notions of workplace democracy – essential ingredients in the Jaques' early framework – need to be resurrected as requirements for requisite organizations. “Cherry picking” of Jaques' ideas by company executives has led to an unfair diminution of his importance as an innovative and challenging theorist. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.