ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the high degree of power wielded by management in the Yugoslav enterprise and deals with the way in which that power is established and sustained. In short, no research findings have yet come up with the conclusion that the introduction of workers' self-management in the economy has resulted in a democratic distribution of influence within the enterprise. The intensification of the socialist market and the move to enterprise autonomy has thus sharpened the social divisions between manual and non-manual personnel. There is, no way in which manual workers can challenge the influence of top management over decision-making, as the system now stands. In the Yugoslav system of economic organization, because patterns of authority at the workplace are not stabilized by the organized political power of the working class, there are no structural constraints on the abuse of managerial power by outside agencies.
