Tuesday, January 08, 2008
BBC Link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7176659.stm 'No managers' plea from analyst Who's the boss - can you name the TV comedy managers? Answers below A business analyst is recommending a world without managers, where the staff take ownership of a company themselves. Dr Paul Thomas, a senior lecturer at the University of Glamorgan, wants to see workers in all organisations have the freedom to be innovative. He believes managers hold companies back and has called for changes in the workplace in BBC Radio Wales programme, Wales@work. Dr Thomas says he has faced criticism from both managers and workers. Seven years ago he founded the think-tank DNA Wales which aims to challenge traditional views of business and work towards getting rid of older-style management. In the BBC Radio Wales programme Wales@work - The Business Doctor, he sets out to prove to the manufacturing company, Excel Assemblies in Port Talbot how the theory works.