Every company or industry I have ever worked in has been badly organized, with all sorts of inefficiencies and misunderstandings.
The jobs I have worked in are mostly manufacturing electronic mechanisms with one of them being a very well-known and lauded NZ company, you'd expect a high level of co-ordination and application to the job in hand, sadly not the case.
The intricacies of the tasks in assembling complex electronics to be mastered would probably not be as complex as dealing with large groups of ailing people in all stages of sickness and distress in varying sizes all round the country.
The stuffed up systems I have had a hand in repairing at least temporarily before I left in disgust from multiple jobs would be nowhere near as complex as the tasks and co-ordination to do the Herculean job required to be undertaken by the Health system; with current attitudes in the NZ workforce in general I see little hope of any improvement with either top down or bottom up solutions.
Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. With the Chiefs and middle-chiefs all too ready to pontificate on tasks they know nothing about and to treat everything as if supplying bottles of soft drink is the same thing as supplying air travel facilities or Health Care, leaving 'where the rubber hits the road tasks' up to the skilled staff but interfering all the way through the process to make their management mark on the processes like graffitiing a wall for all to see.
Taking every helpful suggestion as a challenge to their authority status.
The emphasis on individualism in NZ is not conducive to groups working like a clockwork machine to undertake what would be required in the Health sector.
People blindly/religiously following orders is the last thing needed. Top down main frame computer type models to govern complex systems is a sure-fire way to either fail abysmally or produce a system which limps along like we have now.
The jobs I have worked in are mostly manufacturing electronic mechanisms with one of them being a very well-known and lauded NZ company, you'd expect a high level of co-ordination and application to the job in hand, sadly not the case.
The intricacies of the tasks in assembling complex electronics to be mastered would probably not be as complex as dealing with large groups of ailing people in all stages of sickness and distress in varying sizes all round the country.
The stuffed up systems I have had a hand in repairing at least temporarily before I left in disgust from multiple jobs would be nowhere near as complex as the tasks and co-ordination to do the Herculean job required to be undertaken by the Health system; with current attitudes in the NZ workforce in general I see little hope of any improvement with either top down or bottom up solutions.
Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. With the Chiefs and middle-chiefs all too ready to pontificate on tasks they know nothing about and to treat everything as if supplying bottles of soft drink is the same thing as supplying air travel facilities or Health Care, leaving 'where the rubber hits the road tasks' up to the skilled staff but interfering all the way through the process to make their management mark on the processes like graffitiing a wall for all to see.
Taking every helpful suggestion as a challenge to their authority status.
The emphasis on individualism in NZ is not conducive to groups working like a clockwork machine to undertake what would be required in the Health sector.
People blindly/religiously following orders is the last thing needed. Top down main frame computer type models to govern complex systems is a sure-fire way to either fail abysmally or produce a system which limps along like we have now.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche