The paradigm of a new decentralization : Its implications for organization and HRM

An analysis of five concepts of management from an organizational theoretical approach reveals a common organizational pattern. From this pattern the paradigm of a new decentralization can be recognized. A more exact analysis of the structural elements reveals many unsolved organizational problems. In a similar manner, implications of this pattern entail many unsolved or poorly‐solved problems for human resources management, most of which result from the implicit premiss of an all‐too‐heroic notion of human nature in all of the five concepts.