I have read about parkinson's law and have seen it in effect at the medium-sized business where I work. We seem to hire similar numbers of managers as 'front-line' people, if not more. Apart from lay-offs, are there any ways to avoid this arguably unnecessary increase in bureaucracy?
Get the company to agree a common uniform wage across all workers. Put managers on lower wages that front-liners : my then civil service boss was the first one that showed this idea to me, that you shouldn't necessarily pay managers higher wages than workers.
In a coal mine, say, the guys downstairs at the [actual] coal-face are arguably working harder and at greater risk than the guy in the office that administrates the shift changes, etc..
Organizations can be cured of injelititis spontaneously, when an individual conditioned to hide his intelligence penetrates to the top post and "suddenly throws off the mask and appears like the demon king among a crowd of pantomime fairies."
Well, this appears to me that the only way to get rid of the problem is to 'play stupid' until you are the CEO!
In a coal mine, say, the guys downstairs at the [actual] coal-face are arguably working harder and at greater risk than the guy in the office that administrates the shift changes, etc..