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Jacob Levesque SYST/HIST 202 Class 8 – The Organization as a Complex System Homework Discussion Questions Chandler, “The Railroads” Biography of Alfred Chandler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_D._Chandler,_Jr . Chandler’s Visible Hand review: “Still Visible – Review of Visible Hand.pdf” 1. Railroads created a type of officer called the “middle manager”, e.g., Division Superintendents and Resident Engineer (pp. 34-35), who were not owners and were not traditional workers. Middle managers have been a fixture in large, vertically-integrated companies throughout the 20 th century. In the 21 st century the nature of the corporation is changing, especially in the hi-tech industry. You are a blogger for one of these hi-tech companies (you may want to choose a particular firm like Google, Apple, Facebook, etc.). Write a blog post about the role of middle managers in your company – are they still necessary to control and direct projects, or do other factors like improved information sharing make middle managers obsolete? Jacob Levesque Blog# middle managers in Google I have been working at Google now for about three months and I’ve been studying a lot of how the business is run. Today I’d like to discuss a crucial part of the workforce, middle managers what they are and do. First off, a middle manager is the intermediate management level of a hierarchal organization. This means that they are subordinate to the executive management and responsible for the day to day working staff. Here at google the middle managers give out projects to teams and the teams complete the work. Managers are still necessary in today’s world. This was proven back in 2002 during project oxygen. Project oxygen was a test by google to see if they could sustain themselves without managers and it proved they absolutely couldn’t. Workers will continue to struggle if they do not have someone to go to with questions about their projects. Some people also need to have a hand on their shoulder to get work done efficiently and on time. Managers are what keeps the business moving they are the glue between the average worker and the executive. As good as information sharing gets some people need a real person to be in charge. A big trend being seen around the tech world is that companies are beginning to fire or reposition many middle managers. This will be the best proof whether eliminating middle management is an effective move or not. With time we will be able to study the long/short term effects that no middle management

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