hyperdivision

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ division

Noun

hyperdivision (uncountable)

1. Extreme or excessive division.
   • 1994, Norbert Rouland, Legal Anthropology, page 209:

     In Nazi Germany, the hyperdivision of labour according to gender (political and military roles for men, domestic roles for women), had it lasted for centuries, would have possibly resulted in a model not unlike the Nayar.

   • 2009, Paul DiMaggio, The Twenty-First-Century Firm, page 218:

     In Japan, for example, tenure-in-place in a sharply segmented labor market with little mobility between primary sector firms created strong enough incentives that firms avoided the hyperdivision of labor and atrophy-inducing rules that once characterized many Western firms.