The disadvantages of traditional company management and amoeba

First of all, it depends on what kind of "amoeba management" the company is building, and whether reasonable rules are embedded in the amoeba division of labor, accounting mechanism design and incentive mechanism design in advance to avoid negative effects. Many designs with incompatible incentives, such as too many broken units, inconsistent or difficult independent units, complicated and unreasonable price mechanism and wrong profit and loss model, will lead to the negative effects that everyone is worried about. For example, if "equipment maintenance" is set to amoeba, its revenue source will charge the production department the service fee per unit time according to the maintenance hours. This design is likely to cause equipment units to "muddle along" and "lower the maintenance quality" in order to increase their income, which will damage the interests of the company and production units, inevitably lead to complaints and conflicts, and pollute the organizational atmosphere.

Secondly, companies should also treat organizational conflicts correctly. Drucker said that "the purpose of organization is to liberate and mobilize people's abilities, not to make them symmetrical or harmonious." . The pursuit of internal harmony will inevitably lead to disharmony in the external market, because the pursuit of internal harmony tolerates the existence of uncompetitive internal units or departments, covers up the capacity defects and weakens the overall competitiveness of the company, which is also inconsistent with the original intention of introducing amoeba management.

Thirdly, to coordinate the contradiction between the short-term utility of the division and the long-term interests of the company, we need to construct it from many aspects, such as strategic career, performance system, long-term incentive mechanism, and the construction of the overall organizational function of the enterprise. (Source: Hong Kong Humanities Beverly)