Those are not unhealthy conflicts. Management s responsibility under this system is to produce a product or service efficiently and cost-effectively. But that can become abusive to the worker, when it means cutting wages and stripping people of health benefits. If the purpose to make money, management is likely to squeeze out of a worker as much as possible. There needs to be a countervailing force there.
People say enlightened management won t squeeze like that.
The Waltons are doing quite well financially. Wal-Mart stock is doing great. But it isn t working so well from the perspective from the people who work there. You have stores with a few managers overseeing a lot of part-timers with low wages and inadequate benefits. That s not in the workers interest.