ABSTRACT
The enterprise needs a management responsible for economic performance and endowed with full authority to discharge its responsibility. The relationship between management and the self-government of the plant community will not be like the relationship between two suns, each revolving in its own orbit and separated from the other by light-years of empty space. The autonomous self-government of the plant community introduces a new principle rather than startlingly new practices. In practice, such matters as safety or health have been put under joint committees of management and workers in a great many industries with satisfactory results. Lay-offs and promotions follow rules set by the plant community rather than by management. Even hiring, in a very large number of industries, has ceased to be under the exclusive control of management; in some industries it has passed under the exclusive control of the union.
