July 2022
Beginner to intermediate
204 pages
7h 45m
English
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
– Mark Twain
The literature on management and organizational research is replete with concepts relating to the positive side of human beings such as positive organizational climate, psychological contract, commitment, citizenship, work satisfaction, team synergy, cohesiveness, solidarity and altruism. All these popular concepts are based on an optimistic assumption that human nature is compatible with and may easily be shaped by external behavioral adjustments. Despite some dualities, such as Douglas McGregor’s theory X and Y, such affirmative view has been the dominant paradigm of the ...