I’m not sure this is the correct place for this ‘moan’…as I am now aware of my increasing senility which is creeping on me unknowingly until I reflect on how many times I say ‘in my day’ or ‘how can it still be the same’….or worse still ‘where are my car keys’ and even when planning my journeys around convenient ‘comfort’ facilities and not interesting sites.

Anyhow my point….. why do we still take ‘structure’ and business structures as fixed, knowable and objective…and everything with do in organisations is with NO unbiased facts. Is the media to blame for presenting the scientist in their white coat at every point to convince us that unless the ‘science world’ say, fact, present numbers at every opportunity, we don’t believe a word, as if when they wear a white coat or present number they are the holders of truth.

In management and management schools there is a feeling that we are progressing towards a state of ‘complete knowledge’, with the games played by the ‘HRM’, or Procurement, or Operation dept. to be the scientific, rational, and credible holders of the truth to sustainable success….  
 
Please! Their ‘scientific’ observations are primarily to influence the power that they claim to be – but are always biased and the theories themselves are part of that structure of power to keep them in power. They produce a knowledge that is used to reinforce existing power. Managers (and Politicians!) produce information, knowledge and systems that allow them to stay in power……isn’t this obvious… the ‘objectivity’ these managers claim couldn’t be further from the truth……

Old age…I know!