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...will, of course, do nothing about this until the land has been cleared and turned into a desolate wasteland. Then a still famished population, with no further Indian tribal lands to occupy, will doubtless become an object of pity for the U.N., which will then be able to launch yet another Operation Begging Bowl...
Antony Jay, a British management consultant and former BBC producer, thinks that the distance between the tribal councils of Kalahari bushmen and the inner circles of IBM is not all that great. In a book to be published next month, Corporation Man (Random House; $7.95), Jay argues that modern business firms are organized on the same basis as aboriginal tribes. Furthermore, the behavior of corporate executives springs not so much from reason as from animallike, prehistoric instincts. As in Management and Machiavelli, a 1968 book in which Jay compared the corporation to a nation-state, he has done little scientific...
...CAMP. Employees who are not making or selling the product that brings in the money are nonhunting tribal members who mind the campsite. The camp may embrace departments like finance, planning, personnel, maintenance and public relations. "What the corporation's hunters find absolutely intolerable," Jay says, "is the squaw-men in the camp starting to behave as if they were as important as the men who go out and kill the game...
POPULATION BALANCE. An all-male tribe is more aggressive than a tribe with a large number of female members, and thus more prone to bring about the collapse of a corporation's tribal structure-namely, a strike. The longest and bitterest strikes involve the all-male tribes in mines, docks and factories, whereas strikes of female-dominated white-collar tribes are milder...
TERRITORIALITY. Some species of animals, including tribal man, stake out their own territories and repulse any intruder, whether there is any real threat of danger or not; managers and union officials tend to hit out automatically, and often irrationally, at any infringement, real or imaginary, on their responsibilities or prerogatives...