There's a fundamental conflict of interest between workers and managers, and given that managers have all the power, they usually win. Workers want control in the form of autonomy, managers want control in the form of bureaucracy. A good manager, in my mind, devolves as much control as they can down to the workers while maintaining enough bureaucratic control to satisfy those above them.
Of course, that only applies to the traditional hierarchical organisation - there are much more worker-friendly organisational structures organised around autonomy for the individual and democracy for the collective, like the VSM [1] and cooperatives [2]. Of course, we don't see them very often because people usually found companies to control for themselves.
Of course, that only applies to the traditional hierarchical organisation - there are much more worker-friendly organisational structures organised around autonomy for the individual and democracy for the collective, like the VSM [1] and cooperatives [2]. Of course, we don't see them very often because people usually found companies to control for themselves.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viable_system_model
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative