Ever read management books(the real one not the CU ones)? Notice how often (they shift in paradigms) rely heavily on former texts of note, most of which about government. From Machiavelli, to Sun Tzu to now Tao, Montesquieu....but a new wave is sweeping the world, a new style of management, with the idea of empowerment, with just in time, lean manufacturing, Kaizen.
Kaizen, wikipedia it folks(yes I made wikipedia verb, oxford will soon follow). The idea is empowerment of the people. Less management, directly, no real supervisors, the teams of people working on a machine or in a given area are each given a specific job, a "spoke," safety quality machine etc. No one person above the group. More interestingly still, personal performance is tracked and displayed to ever one, so everyone knows how they fit into the puzzle and can see when a coworker is slacking. This is in a nutshell and not fully developed but, Kaizen relates to Foucault.
The institution is was is being fortified int the system. The omnipresent supervisor is replaced by the unknown and invisible upper management who see the production numbers. At the same time all the other employees know their production numbers. This generates in theory competition, but at the same time alienation from the group, for now they are competing within a group for the invisible eye in the sky. As institutions do, alienation and loneliness become omnipresent. The group mentality it thus destroyed really, by both the real time competition as well as the specialisation into spokes. Think about it. I will speak more on this later.
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