Can this theory be sued to successfully transform an organization ?
1."Organizations, like connectionist networks, have outputs. Strategic-level managers formulate the organization’s interpretation. When one speaks of organizational interpretation one really means interpretation by a relatively small group at the top of the organizational hierarchy…. Upper managers bring together and interpret information for the system as a whole".
"Organizational information processing, as in connectionist nets, is feed-forward. Many participants may play some part in scanning or data processing, but the point at which information converges and is interpreted for organizational level action is assumed to be at the top manager level.
… Below the vice presidential level, participants are not informed on issues pertaining to the organization as a whole.
"The emergent organization: communication as its site and surface", by James R. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Van Every.
2/So Taylor and Van Every say that "Below the vice presidential level, participants are not informed on issues pertaining to the organization as a whole"
mistyped – meant USED, not sued
All you guys need to talk to each other, you all have the same question, office power paths are created to supposedly ensure that low level employees don’t know too much about what goes on in case you decided to sell the idea to a competitor, but it doesn’t help with the overall outcome of the project. Being kept in the dark to protect the project might work is every level of staff did their job, knowing what all the other levels under them were doing – otherwise nothing would ever work 
Everything nowadays can be sued. It does not mean that the outcome will be success.
Wars always deplete all involved.
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mk
All you guys need to talk to each other, you all have the same question, office power paths are created to supposedly ensure that low level employees don’t know too much about what goes on in case you decided to sell the idea to a competitor, but it doesn’t help with the overall outcome of the project. Being kept in the dark to protect the project might work is every level of staff did their job, knowing what all the other levels under them were doing – otherwise nothing would ever work
References :
Froggie