Management as a TV Set

Management is obviously not a science but rather a discipline. Planning, organizing, controlling, motivating and staffing are some main functions of that discipline and are widely applied by most of the organizations around the world. What is so surprising to me is the similarity among the ways that those functions are working in totally different organizations . Why do almost all businesses reward their employees with bonuses? Why do the employees in all industries have almost same vacation allowances? Why should everyone follow a direction from "managed" to "managing" roles on their career paths? Why should all people have a path anyway?
Some of those can still be "right" for many businsses but I strongly believe just copying the techniques and applying them in extremely different organizations really does not make any sense.
I totally agree with Dank Pink's statement on his TED talk: "At 20th century we came up with this idea of "management" , it is not a tree but it is a television set, somebody invented it and it doesn't mean it is going to work forever" .