The rest of the structure of a Mondragon Cooperative is equally insightful into human nature. Only members of the cooperative can be on the Board of Directors. This assures an adult-adult psychology pattern. There are two main committees of the Board - the Management and Social Council. This is another unique aspect of the Mondragon design.
Management is recognized as a specialty skill.
So Mondragon hires people to manage who have that skill and then gets out of their way and lets them do their jobs. This has solved perhaps one of the greatest problems of all other worker cooperative efforts. In past efforts, managers were suspect because the workers had come from capitalist enterprises where the hierarchy was used as a power tool. So managers were not given sophisticated training and the other worker-owners used their influence to demand changes in management's business plans without sensitivity to the sophistication of its design. For these reasons it has been widely believed that worker-ownership could never compete in a capitalist society.