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How best to organize the efforts of individuals to achieve desired objectives has long been one of the world's most important, difficult, and controversial problems.

— Rensis Likert New patterns of management (1961)

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As people acquire more education, their expectations rise as to the amount of responsibility, authority, and income they receive.

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