# An Organizational Critic By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2022-12-03 Managerial work can be categorized as performance. To the extent to which management is performance art, organizations would benefit from employing critics. Just like accountants, sales representatives, and human resources executives, an organizational critic has an important function to perform. Critics analyze and evaluate artistic works. Given the performative nature of management, the organization would benefit from an organizational critic to ensure that managerial performances are of the highest artistic quality. This metaphor is useful as it highlights an important disconnect between organizational structure and evaluation. Typically, managers receive tasks and performance reviews from executives. Literally, executives are the directors/producers of managerial performance. These people certainly have opinions on the quality of the performance, but they aren’t in the most objective position to assess it. There are major artistic and commercial flops produced by directors/producers who thought the work held merit. Critics sit in the audience to observe the performance. They are not personally invested in what the director/producer envisioned. They can assess the performance for what it is. Tensions emerge because analysts, due to conceptual overlap and a lack of task coverage within the organization, start to critique what is going on. It would likely be more direct and beneficial to simply hire organizational critics to assess management’s performance. #### Related Items [[Management]] [[Organizational Analytics]] [[Critique]] [[Performance]] [[Analytics]]