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it's not so simple---there's an *enormous* body of information in sociology that indicates management hierarchies have little to do with the effective running of production---they're as much expressions of the ideology of organization, the type of organization assumed to be more effective---but it's not at all clear that vertically ordered hierarchies (bureaucracies) are even rational (from the viewpoint of effectively running an operation that is not itself---most organizations can run themselves----not necessarily well---but anyway)---even as they are rational internally---rational here meaning that they are effective systems of information fragmentation and transfer---within a bureaucracy, professional roles are defined such that the bits of information you recieve, process, and send along are internally consistent--they "fit"---but that doesn't mean there's a coherent relation between that information and the world.
but it sometimes appears that in this brave new world of neoliberalism, concern about such matters has been erased behind a quaint almost religious faith that everything fits with everything else, so a corporate bureaucracy is rational because it's private and only state bureaucracies are subject to the structural problems of bureaucracy in general because, well, the public sector (the state) is evil foul bad and nice corporations are entirely rational.
it's quaint.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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