Using the energy sources

Abstract

The previous chapter has sought to show that, although the breaking down of the existing power structure implicit in the hierarchical systems of industrial management leaves the manager of today in an apparently vulnerable position compared with his predecessors, the same breakdown is also revealing new sources of energy within the enterprise which the previous system had failed to tap. Some managers inevitably view this development with fear and with apprehension. At least in the previous system these energy sources were held under control and there is a risk that their release will lead not to their productive use, but to anarchy.