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That any social solidarity did develop in this heterogeneous group, was astonishing, and showed what could be accomplished through segregating workers into small compact groups.

Fritz Roethlisberger

According to our analysis the uniformity of behaviour manifested by these groups was the outcome of a disparity in the rates of change possible in the technical organisation, on the one hand, and in the social organisation, on the other. The social sentiments and customs of work of the employees were unable to accommodate themselves to the rapid technical innovations introduced. The result was to incite a blind resistance to all innovations and to provoke the formation of a social organisation at a lower level in opposition to the technical organisation.

Fritz Roethlisberger

Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today's business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.

Fritz Roethlisberger

Fritz Roethlisberger

Fritz Roethlisberger

Born: 1898

Died: 1974 (aged 76)

Bio: Fritz Jules Roethlisberger was a social scientist, management theorist at the Harvard Business School.

Known for:

Management and morale (1941)

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