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The classic rationalists did not consider the members of an organization as human beings, but just as cogs in the machine. For them, workers were only hands. The human relations approach has shown how incomplete this rationale was. It has also made it possible to consider workers as creatures of feeling, who are moved by the impact of the so-called rational decisions taken above then, and will react to them. A human being, however, does not have only a hand a heart. He also had a head, which means that he is free to play his own game.

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Is democracy in crisis? This question is being posed with increasing urgency by some of the leading statesmen of the West, by columnists and scholars, and— if public opinion polls are to be trusted— even by the publics. In some respects, the mood of today is reminiscent of that of the early twenties, when the views of Oswald Spengler regarding "The Decline of the West" were highly popular. This pessimism is echoed, with obvious Schadenfreude, by various communist observers, who speak with growing confidence of "the general crisis of capitalism" and who see in it the confirmation of their own theories.

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Power is a very difficult problem with which to deal in the theory of organization.

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Michel Crozier

Michel Crozier

Born: November 6, 1922
Died: May 24, 2013 (aged 90)
Bio: Michel Crozier was a French sociologist and member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques from 1999 until his death.
Known for:
  1. L'acteur et le systeme (1977)
  2. Bureaucratic phenomenon (1963)
  3. Le phénomène bureaucratique (1963)
  4. The Crisis of Democracy (1975)
  5. Actors and systems (1980)

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