On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Carl Dassbach <[email protected]> wrote: > No really, isn't there bloat and excess at the "top" of the corporation?
I worked for a multinational telecom equipment maker in the bad old days of the telecom bust (2001-2003). Yes there was bloat (and not just at the top), but when recession hit, management ruthlessly cut staffing (from around 120k to about 40k). From being bloated, we quickly went to being chronically understaffed. I guess my question is, why doesn't something similar happen in a university that runs into budget problems? You point to the profit motive of a corporation as a key difference from a university. But doesn't a university management have a similar incentive to squeeze surplus value out of its (non-management) workforce and pay themselves with it, rather than raise prices? -raghu. -- "I bought some batteries, but they weren't included." - Steven Wright _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
