Too many ‘stupid rules’, too little authority: how organisations create their own red tape
- Written by Natasha Hamilton-Hart, Professor in Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Getty Images“Dress appropriately.”
Soon after becoming General Motors’ vice president of global human resources in 2009, Mary Barra used those two words to replace a clunky employee dress code that had grown to ten pages long.
One might think that move by Barra, who now heads the company, simply signalled a return to “common...
