Putting them in the picture is not a frame‐up

It has been said that about 90 per cent of new management techniques are old ideas put into new words and given contemporary names like Management by Objectives, Value Engineering, Operational Research, and so on. So too with the growing pressure on firms to tell their workers (or some of their workers who are called shop stewards) the facts of business life. Today we call it ‘disclosure of information’; at one time it was called ‘putting them in the picture’.