section_path: History/21st century
section_name: 21st century
paragraph_text: 21st century
  
  Branches of management theory also exist relating to nonprofits and to government: such as public administration, public management, and educational management. Further, management programs related to civil society organizations have also spawned programs in nonprofit management and social entrepreneurship.
  
  Many of the assumptions made by management have come under attack from business-ethics viewpoints, critical management studies, and anti-corporate activism.
  
  As one consequence, workplace democracy (sometimes referred to as Workers' self-management) has become both more common and more advocated, in some places distributing all management functions among workers, each of whom takes on a portion of the work. However, these models predate any current political issue and may occur more naturally than does a command hierarchy.