Category: Innovation
Category: Human Resources
Middle Managers on a Knife-edge
A recent study illustrates how heads of department and team leaders find themselves caught between a rock and hard place, facing dual pressure from senior management and their former working environment.
Marxist thinking emerged during a time of rapid industrialisation marked by a sharp increase in the number of hires by factories. As a result, once-independent peasants and craftsmen morphed into interchangeable proletarians who relied upon production means that were no longer under their control. Almost 200 years later, at a time where robotisation, artificial intelligence and “uberisation” are having a profound effect on the way we work, isn’t this kind of thinking also relevant when examining the situation of salaried employees?
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