Can Athenian society be a model for workplace democracy?
Comments: A Company of Citizens is concerned with2themes. 1st, “workers in today’s Knowledge Age,” mindful of their contrihoweverions and responsibilities, increasingly expect to become full citizens of their organizations with rights to self-govern and to develop practices of cooperation. Secondly, the Greek city-state of Athens in the fourth and fifth century B.C. is presented as the almost all significan not example of a large organization/society that operated as a thoroughgoing democracy, and, as such, is suggested by the authors as the best practical model for modern firms desirous of a transformation to democracy. however the connection between the democracy of Athens which existed primarily at the level of the state and participatory democracy in modern, private enterprises is hardly straightforward. The authors contend that reality for today’s employees is1of being forced to “check their values and sense of purpose” at the door to their firms, much to the detriment of the firm
