Do you mean bigger companies where the entire company is in Belarus? Or do you mean if a big company with headquarters elsewhere but a location in Belarus, the Belarusian employees don't dare to criticize the CEO who lives in another country? Or do you mean that, all over the earth, in bigger companies like Google or Boeing, employees don't dare to criticize their CEO?
Even if you (or your friend) are only talking about the very first one, big companies mostly located in Belarus, I find it difficult to believe that the CEO is even capable of making a *complete* autocratic decree. Big organizations do lots of things. Granted, Steve Jobs might say "I want all my music on a little box I can hold in my hand" and the rest of the company has to make that happen. But the decisions about *how* to make that happen must be delegated. There exists a "biggest decision" that the autocrat is completely ignorant of, small enough to fly under the autocrat's radar, but big enough to regulate the evolution of the company. Where, and of what type, that "biggest decision" lies will be different in each different autocracy. Of course, when the sh¡t hits the fan, the autocrat won't take the blame. But to gloss it all under the same generalization of "authoritarian" isn't that helpful. Companies and governments just aren't that similar across cultures. Within some cultures, companies and governments might be very similar, but in some cultures, very different. To assume that, say, all Belarusian CEOs are thin-skinned autocrats seems a stretch. I'd believe it more about CEOs in China, because of the biased stereotypes I'm burdened with. Obviously, data would change my mind. On 10/21/24 16:02, Jochen Fromm wrote:
I remember talking to a developer from Belarus a few years ago, asking him about life under an authoritarian regime. This was before the protests in Belarus from 2020 to 2021 and the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine shortly after in 2022. He said under an authoritarian regime you are basically allowed to do anything *unless* you start to criticize the president. Criticism of the president and/or his family would lead to heavy punishment. In bigger companies or corporations nobody of the employees would dare to criticize the CEO in public either. Only the shareholders are allowed to do it. The person at the top makes the big decisions which the people below have to execute.
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