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Humans will probably always need the help of especially gifted moral leaders in order to extend the bonds of caring and trust beyond the easy range of the family and the face-to-face community. Such bonds have become essential to the future of humanity.

— Paul R. Lawrence

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By integration we mean the process of achieving unity of effort among the various subsystems in the accomplishment of the organization's tasks.

Other things being equal, differentiation and integration are essentially antagonistic, and that one can be obtained only at the expense of the other.

The quality of the state of collaboration that exist among organizations that is required to achieve unity of effort by the demands of the environment.

Orientation of members toward others [is] a cognitive and affective orientation toward the objects of work, which is manifested in a person's interpersonal style.

By differentiation we mean the differences in cognitive and emotional orientation among managers in different units and the differences in formal structure among units.

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