First, Let's fire all Managers

First, Let’s Fire all the Managers

The article here by Gary Hamel has mainly tried to portray the use and differences between the various management perspective styles being applied in the organizations today and also how it has impacted on the daily operations of the business. The author of the article has mainly tried to highlight on the importance of management as a least efficient activity in any organization. The author has also focused on mangers being a hefty tax on any organization applied to “the more the managers in the organization, the more cost it has to bear” ultimately leading to its retarded growth. The article mainly revolves around the differences between the self- management model and hierarchal model. It has tried to prove how self management model in any organization works better than that of hierarchal management style by giving the example of one of the world’s largest tomato processor company “Morning Star Company” which follows the road to Self- Management i.e. believes in having the organization with no managers.

Managing its resources has become an expensive job. Today’s organization consists of managers in all levels and in all departments which thereby adds costs to an organization since the salary/incentives on average that managers take is thrice to that of first level employees. Management which follows the typical hierarchy model are the ones which has to face more risk and uncertainties associated with it. Decision making authority basically lies on the sole authority which ultimately becomes more time consuming and more risk associated with it thus becomes more difficult for any operations to get implemented. Also it has been seen that managers are the ones who are farther from the reality world of the organization. Every single employee in most of the organization are not given the authority to have the power on decision making, ultimately it’s vested on the managers whose power, value and authority is the only things that