Having been around corporations a lot, one crucial aspect of Davey's experience is the proliferation of failed sociological/religious models on how to promote fake solidarity in social orders that are actually openly (or thinly masked) boosters of selfish behaviour on behalf of absent hierarchical masters. Anyone with any sense knows that, except for a very few creative companies, rewards are organized around vicious selfishness, unpredictable luck with a product line, or the eternal "taking credit by showing up". The notions of "team", "horizontal trust", "just-in-time bonding" (true corp-speak) are all variations on juvenile schemes created by MBAs whose personal experience of teamwork is solely based on the one time "group all-nighter" deadline for their MBA professors. Each time some new book by these clever morons is released, a new metaphor is propounded, ranging from the "team" , to the "floor", to the "conversion to the corporation". Most people, like the Hindu peasants of old, simply continue farming, and wait for the next set of barbarians to pass by.
Universities have been exempt from this until recently, but we are now seeing "criteria for excellence" entering in. T-groups cannot be far behind.
yours, Peter T.