The Great Jackass Fallacy

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Title The Great Jackass Fallacy
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 1973
Authors Levinson, H.
Publisher Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University
Keywords psychic prison
Notes psychic prison"People will avoid, evade, escape, deny, and reject both the jackass assumption and the military style hierarchy, for few people can tolerate being a jackass in a psychological prison without doing something about it." (p. 13) "...then the managerial task becomes one of alliance with the ego ideals of employees one supervises rather than fighting the individuals or manipulating them in the psychological prison that is the contemporary hierarchical environment." (p. 105)
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