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The supreme principle [in Industrial Organization] has been the belief that business efficiency and the welfare of the employees are but different sides of the same problem. Character is an economic asset ; and business efficiency depends not merely on the physical condition of employees, but on their general attitude and feeling towards the employer.

— Edward Cadbury Experiments in industrial organization (1912)

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Source: Introduction, p. vii; Partly cited in: Felix Behling et al., The Changing Worlds and Workplaces of Capitalism. 2015, p. 194
Work: Experiments in industrial organization, 1912
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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