CHAPTER IV
LOYALTY
AS A MEANS OF INCREASING HUMAN EFFICIENCY Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business | ||
Many Examples of the Loyalty of Executives for their Men in Danger
This double loyalty—to the chief and to the organization—is not a plant of slow growth. Few mine accidents or industrial disasters occur without bringing to merited, but fleeting, fame some heroic superintendent or lesser boss who has risked his own life to save his men or preserve the company's property. The same sense of responsibility extends to every grade. Give a man the least touch of authority and he seems to take on added moral stature. The engineer who clings to his throttle with collision imminent has his counterparts in the "handy man"
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CHAPTER IV
LOYALTY
AS A MEANS OF INCREASING HUMAN EFFICIENCY Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business | ||