These breakdowns are very common, so common that lecturers are making a living from peddling their methodologies and selling their books. Even school districts are using these educational gurus to get past impasses. One such guru used the car industry to further his methodology of openness and trust with the power forces that be. He claimed that labor vs. management was the biggest stumbling block the car industry has to face. He showed how a new car company was breaking the mold, referring to Saturn 2 .
Management loves to wield control despite all their claims about shared decision-making and trust.
Education must grapple with that beast too. Management loves to play the same game with school boards and teachers unions. Later, when the contract is reduced to a two-page pamphlet and a handshake, the real face of management is revealed. Labor concerns, which directly involve the welfare of students and therefore the community, fall to the wayside. We then get a school district that looks great on paper but is much less than perfect in reality.