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{{a|work|[[File:Org Chart.png|450px|frameless|center]]}}{{d|Org chart|/ɔːg ʧɑːt/|n|}} | {{a|work|[[File:Org Chart.png|450px|frameless|center]]}}{{d|Org chart|/ɔːg ʧɑːt/|n|}} | ||
A glib schematic that tells you everything you don’t need to know about an organisation, but which the organisation treats as | A glib schematic that tells you everything you don’t need to know about an organisation, but which the organisation treats as its most utmost secret. | ||
===Form, not substance=== | |||
{{quote|“What you see is all there is.” | |||
:— {{author|Daniel Kahneman}}}} | |||
{{quote|“Der Teufel steckt im Detail. Gott ist in den Lücken.”<ref>''The Devil is in the detail. God is in the gaps''.</ref> | |||
:—{{Buchstein}}, ''[[Die Schweizer Heulsuse]]''}} | |||
Because we can see | Because we can see [[form]] easily, we imbue it with meaning. We assume static connections between vertices on the formal architecture matter: that they are “structural”, because they ''say'' they are. | ||
Take the [[org chart]]: this places every person in a firm in a logical, hierarchical relationship to everyone else, and can be neatly and easily controlled, that’s not to say many organisation charts become positively Byzantine. | |||
There is much management theory around the relationship of “spans” and “layers”<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=spans+and+layers Let me google that for you].</ref> optimal organisation charts no more than 5 layers of management; no more than 5 direct reports and so on. This, from [https://peoplepuzzles.co.uk/news/ive-got-too-many-direct-reports/#:~:text=Around%20five%20direct%20reports%20seems,really%20hold%20the%20business%20back People Puzzles], is pretty funny: | There is much management theory around the relationship of “spans” and “layers”<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=spans+and+layers Let me google that for you].</ref> optimal organisation charts no more than 5 layers of management; no more than 5 direct reports and so on. This, from [https://peoplepuzzles.co.uk/news/ive-got-too-many-direct-reports/#:~:text=Around%20five%20direct%20reports%20seems,really%20hold%20the%20business%20back People Puzzles], is pretty funny: |