Both Carol Gilligan and Lawrence Kohlberg fight for right. As Gilligan fights for empathy, nonrestrictive rules, and productivity through bonding, Kohlberg fights for justice, structure, and loyalty. Kohlberg would side with T&T systems because it is more systematic to have a hierarchy chain. Keeping people from the bottom of the curve would harm productivity by having incompetent workers attempt to reach the goals of the company and the code of ethics, but the system designed for structure, loyalty, power, and competition cannot flourish innovative ideas.
Our brains are constructed to use fewer and fewer neuropathways as we get older in order to generate faster, more rigid, structured answers and decisions. It explains while children are extremely creative, and by the time we reach the age of 50, we have set morals, personal preferences, and appeals. If we adopt Kohlberg’s ideology of structure, competition, and justice, we lose the capability of innovation. Ideas are not stimulated on their own. If you were locked in your office until you are able come up with the next smartphone design to make your company millions, there would be a tombstone in the front of your office desk. Human interaction allows those neuropathways to regrow and adapt a newer perspective of reality. Sociology studies have proven that babies can only learn from human interaction. Without interactions, they would never understand what language, morals, or basic physical movements. We aren’t babies anymore, but human interaction is the fundamental structure of learning. It’s the only thing all humans have in common. WIthout human interactions, the concept of thinking would not exist. Human interaction is the nourishment industries and companies need to survive.
In Kolhberg’s system, there is interaction, but the stress, anxiety, and restrictions are the core inhibits to creativity. Gilligan’s system achieves creativity, yet lacks the structure and power required to hold a well-oiled productive team together. There needs to be both a reward and punishment for individual actions. The majority of higher educated workers like engineers, scientists, and writers value knowledge and intellectual aspirations over monetary value. However, at the end of the day, knowledge isn’t going to get food on the table. There needs a greater incentive to drive workers to meet the requirements individually instead of only “letting down team members”. Team members will cheat and become winners as others are set losers for the sole purpose of being the victim of the socialist system. The most ideal system would be in an environment where Gilligan’s team connection and creativity can flourish in a structured, juristic system free of excess stress and failure.