Workplace Organization Contemporary job definitions foster hierarchy. Small councils deal with immediate problems confronting small work groups. Larger councils make decisions for work teams encompassing a network of work groups, for example, in a wing or on a floor. Still larger councils make decisions for a division, a complex of divisions, or a plant, and federations of councils make decisions for an industry. Every council and federation principally concerns itself with affairs at its own level while contributing to decisions at higher levels in proportion to how they are affected.
Some decisions require a majority of all members.
Others, where the change has more drastic implications, may require two -thirds. Nothing requires that every decision must await every council's or worker's input. Personnel decisions are made only by people directly concerned. Decisions about breaks that affect a whole floor would be made by all involved on that floor. Plant decisions would be made by plant councils.