Tag: Organizational Kabuki

  • Theory Y Promises

    Theory Y Promises

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    Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y highlight two management styles: authoritarian control versus participative collaboration. While many organizations champion Theory Y values, they often enforce Theory X practices, prioritizing control over collaboration. This disconnect, amplified by modern workplace technology, erodes trust, rights, and wages. Performative “organizational Kabuki” masks these realities, leaving workers to misplace…

  • Organizational Kabuki

    Organizational Kabuki

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    I am employed by a large government agency and I was recently given the opportunity to participate in what I like to call participation kabuki. Participation kabuki is when an organization desires to make a show of soliciting input from throughout the organization. Typically a committee is formed to organize the desired input. The committee is…