The idea was to move labor grievances from the streets to the courts and boardrooms under the watchful eye of state functionaries.
This process can be applied around patients' beds as well as family kitchen tables or corporate boardrooms.
Several novels deal with the turbulent dramas besetting the corporate corridors of phonographic power: the studios and boardrooms, where careers are forged or destroyed.
It was not debated in the boardrooms and formulated as hospital or professional-society mission statements.
They appear to operate more easily at the grassroots than in the boardroom, and their ability to influence strategic planning and service delivery is far from proven.
Perhaps still more intriguing is that the "members" of this discipline routinely engage the public at the hospital bedside, in the institutional boardroom, and through public policy consultation.
It does not matter about tax give-aways or giving incentives to the boardroom or middle management—that is not what encourages investment.
A large proportion of this nation, in the boardroom no less than on the factory floor, is not working.