Replying to LO27510 --
Dear Organlearners,
Fred Nickols <nickols@att.net> writes:
>I have commented on several lists, including this
>one I believe, that one of the more profound
>differences I've noted between life in the military
>and life in the civilian sector is that, in civilian
>organizations, the exercise of authority is far more
>arbitrary and capricious than anything I ever
>encountered in the Navy.
and
>If someone were to ask me am I more likely
>to find a brute in the military or in the civilian
>workplace, I would probably say that it is more
>likely in the military; after all, look at the nature
>of its "business."
Greetings dear Fred,
Thank you for an oustanding contribution.
You are indeed fortunate to live in the USA. The problem here in most
African countries is just the opposite. The military had scrapped the Rule
of Law and thus became the brutes.
It is this Rule of Law which you refer to in:
>I will make this assertion: The learning in an
>organization that is governed by a system of
>laws, rules and regulations to which all are
>subject and to which all have recourse and
>from which all receive protection will be far
>greater than in any other kind of organization.
You end with:
>Indeed, I would change the process by which
>corporations are incorporated to required a
>constitution. Ah, but that takes us off into politics,
>doesn't it? I guess there is a "real world" out there
>after all.
It also takes us into religion as I have indicated in my reply to Leo.
Why? We cannot have a spiritual constitution without wholeness.
With care and best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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