Theory: Right Thing is Rarely Done in a Sick Organization

Theory: Right Thing is Rarely Done in a Sick Organization

Very few organizations do the right thing in dealing with their workers, and thus most can be classed as sick. Workers get abused and taken advantage of in their labor, time, ideas, discoveries, salary, promotion, publicity, etc. The bosses of a sick organization do the things that protect them politically, and keep the organization viable and funded going into the future. Many bully bosses and organizations change employees often, using all sorts of tactics to get rid of those they cannot control or cause them problems, believing that they can always get another body off the street they can train to do what they want done. The bosses keep those who they think they can trust due to their "suck-up" actions, or spying on others, and play favorites with them, letting them get away with stuff others are fired for doing/or not doing. A sick organization is a crazy place.

Do not ever expect any organization to do the right thing unless it is already in, or fits, their agenda. Do not pay close attention to, or believe, the "mission statement" of a sick organization, which is generally an idealized smoke screen to hide the real daily operation in actual practice of the organization.

Most organizations will do the things to protect the organization (and their jobs) and keep the money coming (and thus follow the political master plan to keep the funding). Truth is rarely at the forefront of an organization's agenda. Truth is seldom sought, and rarely found. The main agenda is "Whatever is best for keeping the organization going, no matter what the truth, or cost, or what must be buried."

The name of the game is winning one political position after another, not finding, or telling, the truth, and keeping (and increasing) the money flow.

Many a person has been labelled "a loose cannon" or "troublemaker" for seeking or telling the truth, to their personal horror, and to the horror of the bosses of the sick organization who must many times "spin" a tale to counter the truth told.

One must remember that politics trumps science (truth), sex trumps politics, and money trumps everything. Do not expect the truth unless that is the actual real goal of the organization.

And to the doubters out there, I say, "Dig enough and you will find dirt."

Parting thought on right thing: We live in a wierd world, where people chastize others for not giving a baseball to a crying kid, but think nothing of taking that kid's home, or food, or father, or future away.

Adrian R. Lawler, Ph.D.,    (C) 2012