REPLY Why don't organizations function better? (SD6637)

[SDMAIL Jean-Jacques Laublé]

Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>

Hi Aldo


I have made the same sorts of experience.
One was particularly negative.
For about 10 years I had organized in my business the redistribution of its
profit between three actors: the employees, the share-holders and the
business itself: one third for each.
This process necessitated complex calculations every month, which included
in particular the exact valuation of the depreciation of the vehicles (car
rental) based on the Argus (a public method of valuation of the vehicles in
France).
The method was based on the principle of equity between the capital and the
workforce.
Did it work?
No. Because nobody seriously believed that an owner of a company could be as
kind as to do that without some secret intention or eventually falsifying
the results.
Even when I asked the chartered accountant who certified the general
accounting to certify my calculations, it was still not believed.

I was very naïve too.

I think that there is not automatic solution for the structure of an
organisation; it depends on the legal and economic environment, the size of
the business, its activity and one can imagine different structures that
work equally well.

I prefer personally to replace a hierarchical structure by a client-supplier
relation where the added value of the actors is easier to evaluate.
But it is not always feasible.
Regards.
Jean-Jacques Laublé Allocar Eurli
Strasbourg France.
Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>
posting date  Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:44:04 +0200