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If my interpretation of this is correct someone is saying that senior
management "invented" the quality movement to keep their jobs.

For some reason this makes me laugh uproariously.

I do not know why

Regards Denis Cowan

On Sun, 12 Jun 1994, Dale R. Worley wrote:

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> A friend of mine who studied the subject explained the "merger and
> takeover" frenzy of the mid-80's as really being a system for removing
> the job security of entrenched top managment of large, publically-held
> corporations, and thus forcing them to work for the benefit of the
> shareholders rather than themselves.
>
> I find it interesting that the wave of quality programs dates from the
> same era, and that all quality training stresses that top managment
> support is critical to making quality programs work.
>
> Perhaps the usefulness of fear depends on what sorts of actions
> employees avoid out of fear.  If they fear to "rock the boat", fear
> will be immensely counterproductive.  If employees fear causing the
> company to make less profit (and thus going bankrupt), fear will be
> very effective in clearing out cronyism, inefficiency, politics, and
> many other counterproductive tendencies.
>
> Dale
>