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Operation Phoenix 5: A study of living and working in a technological society

Industrial and Commercial Training

ISSN: 0019-7858

Article publication date: 1 June 1981

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Abstract

We continue with our examination of The Grass Roots Approach potential opportunities coupled with potential risks The theme I now propose to develop is that, though the transfer of responsibility to the grass roots is a necessary condition of survival and prosperity, it carries with it a mass of unsolved — and, indeed, as yet, unconsidered — problems and is exposed to such immense risks that, if things were to go wrong, the outcome could be catastrophic. It is also part of my theme that the grass roots movement will gain strength and will expand considerably and rapidly. It isn't going to go into reverse. I foresee grass roots becoming one of the catch‐phrases of the eighties, just as involvement and motivation were the catch‐phrases of the sixties and participation the catch‐phrase of the seventies. A parallel development is likely to take place. Already the vocabulary of grass roots is beginning to creep into the politicians' bag of goodies and in the process it is coming to mean all things to all men, as in the case of participation at the earlier stage.

Citation

Wellens, J. (1981), "Operation Phoenix 5: A study of living and working in a technological society", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 13 No. 6, pp. 186-193. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003837

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MCB UP Ltd

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