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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 9. May 21 1968

Wasted

Wasted

Management is total confusion, and workers under management are largely unproductive, because most of their effort is wasted.

Thirdly, management is parasitic because its activity can be carried on directly by the workers.

Managers individually arc parasitic in many cases because they individually do not contribute anything at all to the work process. Most managers are idlers.

Fourthly, management invariably leads to the collapse of the work system, be it firm or nation, that it is managing. This can be seen in many businesses and in New Zealand on the national level.

On these four plain counts the undesirability of management is plain.

Workers are realising that management is undesirable. This realisation is gradual, but in view of the total incompetence of New Zealand management the fact can no longer be hidden, and must inevitably be recognised within a short period.

When the realisation is widespread, then there will be a revolution against management. The power which management confers just simply will be taken into the hands of the workers.

The managerial system has survived so long in New Zealand because it is a social hangover from a time and society when the middle class was dominant over the workers.

At that time the middle class had an economic advantage, and the middle class government a military advantage, over the workers.

But here in New Zealand there is no middle class, no economic advantage and no military advantage. Nothing, therefore, is supporting our managerial system in existence. Accordingly, when our workers turn against it, it must disappear overnight.