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[Dill]

(05-27-2019, 07:52 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Nah, that's good. Your bloviating about shared governance, all your expertise on the dynamic,  and how it's "different" than a regular business practice seems to come to not. The bosses get what the bosses want in business. Be it your example of shared governance of traditional business practices. At the end of the day: there's no difference.  

But keep that head in the clouds about all that ideological stuff. 

How does it come to naught? 

The "bosses" didn't want a public protest. If faculty and students walk out with impunity, how is that "bosses getting what the bosses want"?

Your complaint was that "employees" were out of line while "on the clock." And you thought Taylor's status as "private" must have made the bosses even more secure. The employees showed "bias" (a common business term?) while you assumed the "bosses" didn't.

They defied their "employers" and should be "disciplined" you said.   ("I can't force my employees to do as I instruct for a job related duty?")
So if the university is no difference from a business, then who disciplines them?  Who "forces" them to do as the bosses "instruct"?

But they are not going to be disciplined. No more than Congress is disciplined when it censures the president with joint resolution.
Congress + Executive = traditional Business "at the end of the day"? 

To make your university=traditional business equivalence, you need and example of a business in which 1) the employees decide who gets hired and define what constitutes "job-related duty," 2) the "boss" cannot fire those special employees anytime he wants to, but 3) the employees can force the boss to resign if they so decide.

"head in the clouds"=understanding the how organizational logic and power sharing works in different institutions.  It means what options for protest/discipline may or may not be available in a specific kind of institution. 

That's why people who don't understand what options are or are not available in a university--even a private one--natter on about bosses disciplining employees who are on the clock.