ABSTRACT
Central America has reached a turning point in its history. Its people must discover their own modern-day approaches to the formation of development schemes to tackle the ever-increasing poverty and to respond to the struggle for survival of the masses. One of the most striking aspects of these new development schemes is the number of public sector production groups which are springing up in all the countries of this region. The National Peasant Foundation (FENAC) includes both peasants and indigenous workers in its national membership of 5,000 in fifteen country-wide organisations. FENAC's experiment in education and the public economy is as yet only in the developmental stage. The implication here is that within these organisational structures, even though individuals may be considered to be at the heart of the process, there is a presumption that they are working in association with management as the key element in this form of business organisation.
