Apple Inc. has been receiving a lot of negative publicity about the iPhone 4′s antenna reception problems following the device’s launch on June 24. In a surprising development, the Wall Street Journal reported that “Apple engineers were aware of the risks associated with the new antenna design as early as a year ago, but Chief [...]
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Apple falters because of Steve Jobs top-down management style
Posted in Democratic Companies, workplace democracy, tagged Steve Jobs Apple iPhone 4 antenna reception problems on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Moore, ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ and Workplace Democracy
Posted in democracy at work, Democratic Companies, employee engagement, employee-owned companies, Management Innovation, open-book management, workplace democracy, tagged Brainpark, Capitalism: A Love Story, Capitalism: A Love Story and workplace democracy, capitalist economic model, company ownership structure, DaVita, Democratic Companies, democratic company, engage and motivate employees, innovative management strategy, maintain a competitive advantage, Michael Moore, Michael Moore and workplace democracy, open-book management, shared decision making, South Mountain, W.L. Gore and Associates, worker-owned cooperatives, workplace democracy as an alternative model to capitalism on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Capitalism: A Love Story, the 2009 documentary movie directed by Michael Moore, criticizes the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general while covering the financial crisis of 2007–2009 and the recovery stimulus. In his movie, Moore highlights workplace democracy as an alternative model to capitalism. Many would argue that workplace democracy [...]
An interview with the authors of Freedom, Inc.
Posted in democracy at work, Democratic Companies, workplace democracy, tagged Brian Carney, command & control, decentralized workplace, decentralizing, Democratic Companies, democratic company, democratic workplace, free workplace, freedom and responsibility for employees, freedom based workplaces, Freedom Inc, Freedom Inc book, Isaac Getz, Management Innovation, set their employees free, workplace democracy on October 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Brian Carney and Isaac Getz are the authors of a new book called Freedom, Inc., which is being released today! WorkplaceDemocracy.com spoke with them recently about their book and its connection to workplace democracy. What is Freedom, Inc. about? Freedom, Inc. is a book about the most important corporate movement of the last two decades, a movement [...]
Democratic companies profiled on CNNMoney.com
Posted in democracy at work, Democratic Companies, employee-owned companies, workplace democracy, tagged democracy at work, Democratic Companies, democratic company, democratic workplace, employee-owned company, Full Sail Brewing Co, Isthmus Engineering and Manufacturing, Mushkin Enhanced, Pelham Auto Parts, Ronin Tech Collective, We Can Do It!, worker's cooperative, workplace democracy on September 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
CNNMoney.com recently profiled six worker-owned, democratic companies. These companies, from diverse industries such as software to auto parts to beer brewing, all credit their innovative management structures with having helped them wheather the current economic crisis. Here are the companies that were profiled: We Can Do It! Women’s Cooperative (Si Se Puede! in Spanish) was [...]
French Democratic Company Excels at Satisfying Customers
Posted in Democratic Companies, Management Innovation, workplace democracy, tagged democratic company, FAVI, flat organization, Matthew E. May on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew E. May wrote an article called “How to Design a Flat Organization” for the IDEA HUB at Amex OPEN Forum. May profiles FAVI, a French autoparts manufacturer with sales of more than $100 million and over 400 employees. In the early 1980′s, FAVI replaced its hierarchical, bureaucratic structure with a flat, team-based model that [...]
Workplace Democracy at DaVita
Posted in Democratic Companies, workplace democracy, tagged DaVita, democratic company, democratic workplace, great workplace, workplace democracy, WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Companies on August 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last week, WorkplaceDemocracy.com spoke with Lisa Joins to get an inside look at one of the nation’s largest and most successful democratic companies. Joins is a director of people services at DaVita, a FORTUNE 500 company and a leading provider of dialysis services in the United States. DaVita has serves approximately 115,000 patients in over 1,500 [...]
Workplace Democracy at W.L. Gore & Associates
Posted in Democratic Companies, Management Innovation, workplace democracy, tagged democratic company, democratic workplace, great workplace, innovation, Management Innovation, W.L. Gore & Associates, workplace democracy on July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week, WorkplaceDemocracy.com spoke with Steve Shuster about what it’s like to work at one of the nation’s largest and most successful democratic companies. Shuster is part of the enterprise communication team at W.L. Gore & Associates, his employer for the past 27 years. With more than $2.5 billion in annual sales and 8,000 employees [...]
3 Democratic Companies Featured on CNN.com
Posted in Democratic Companies, Management Innovation, workplace democracy, tagged Badger Mining, democratic company, employee engagement, employee ownership, flat organization, New Belgium Brewing, open-book management, profit sharing, South Mountain, workplace democracy on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fortune Magazine featured seven small companies as ‘great places to work.’ Not surprisingly, three of these top-ranked employers are run as democratic workplaces. Companies that have adopted participative management practices typically have more highly engaged employees who are more hardworking, creative, and feel greater loyalty towards their employer. The South Mountain Company of Martha’s Vineyard, [...]
Workplace Democracy at Brainpark
Posted in Democratic Companies, Management Innovation, workplace democracy, tagged Brainpark, democratic company, democratic management, democratic workplace, Management Innovation, Mark Dowds, workplace democracy, WorldBlu List of Most Democratic Companies on June 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Imagine a rapidly-growing startup company where the CEO answers not only to his board of directors but also to his employees. Mark Dowds, who founded Brainpark about a year and a half ago, decided that he only wanted to lead a company if the employees accepted his leadership. As a result, any of the employees, [...]
Workplace Democracy and the Layoff-Furlough Dilemma
Posted in Democratic Companies, layoffs, workplace democracy, tagged democratic company, furloughs, layoffs, workplace democracy on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There is a debate going on about whether companies hit hard by the recession are better off conducting layoffs or ordering furloughs in order to align expenses with rapidly-shrinking budgets. The opinions of executives differ widely as to whether layoffs or furloughs are less damaging to employee morale and productivity. What’s interesting is that this [...]
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