How to handle anarchy in office?
Anarchy is the complete
absence of any governing body or authority. Theoretically, it’s a state of
lawlessness providing every individual with absolute authority. The word
‘Anarchy’ comes from the Greek word “anarkhia ", which means
lack of a leader.
The colonial Spirit –
Civilizing the Savages
An idealistic society
was destroyed when the first ship of slave traders landed on the African
shores. The so called ‘savages’ were hunted down like animals and taken to the
civilized Americas to slave in the cotton farms for the white massas. Two
hundred years of slavery was justified as the ‘white burden’ of civilizing the
black savages.
Anarchy in History
The wild-wild west was
perhaps the only period in modern history when there wasn’t any law to reign in
individuals. ‘Do as you please and take what you can’ were the sole
principles that guided human action. Apart from this brief period of partial
anarchy, we have never had an opportunity to get hands on training in the
concept.
Wishful Anarchy
In its idealistic best,
Anarchy presupposes is that every human can flower to his fullest potential
when he’s left alone to decide his fate. In time he’s bound to come-up with a
very personal and distinctive style of creating value. ‘True anarchy’ believes
in creating a voluntary social order of such liberated individuals
Anarchy in the Organization
An organization can be
symbolically represented as a smoker. Where the cigarette is the organization’s
necessity and nicotine is its reward. The smoke of the cigarette is the
corruption or the distress lived daily by the employees. The more an organization
wants things done, the more employees are robbed of their liberty. This gives
birth to corruption and all its vile brothers – nepotism, backstabbing and the
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