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New Paper Published on Workplace Democracy

Workplace democracy advocate Rune Kvist Olsen has released a paper entitled The DemoCratic Workplace: Empowering People (demos) to Rule (cratos) their own workplace.

The paper discusses preliminary steps for designing and transitioning to a democratic workplace and key topics personnel should explore in order to create a shared vision of their desired workplace. Olsen also elaborates on the power dynamics intrinsic to a vertically-structured workplace, and differentiates between leadership and leading-ship and Inner Democracy versus Outer Democracy.

The full paper can be read here.

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