Subject: If democracy is so important to us, what about the democratic corporation? Author: Hugo Bonjean Date: 3/30/2006 Body: I recently read Maverick and the Seven Day Weekend, both books are about Semco, one of the fastest growing corporations in the world and as far as I know the only real democratic corporation.  Examples of their practices include, total transparency (including every individual's salary), employees are involved at all levels in decision making, unions are respected an involved, there is no book with company procedures there only rule is use your common sense, they trust their employees (meaning employees manager their own time, set their own salaries, organize their workplace, innovate continuously, propose new business directions, hire new employees as a group, solve the company's problems together).  They also abandoned the organization chart and pyramid structure.  In essence they moved real democratic ideas into the corporation and as a result are incredibly successful.  What would a democratic corporations look like in your mind and how can we move towards it?   Cancel