"Racial prejudice is thus a generalized set of stereotypes of a high degree of consistency which includes emotional re…"

"An organization which depends solely upon its blueprints of prescribed behavior is a very fragile social system."

"Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into furt…"

"The aims of social science with respect to human organizations are like those of any other science with respect to th…"

"System theory is basically concerned with problems of relationships, of structure, and of interdependence rather than…"

"The homeostatic principle does not apply literally to the functioning of all complex living systems, in that in count…"

"The open system approach to organizations is contrasted with common-sense approaches, which tend to accept popular na…"

"Traditional organizational theories have tended to view the human organization as a closed system. This tendency has …"

"The concept of leadership has an ambiguous status in organizational practice, as it does in organizational theory. In…"

"The employee-oriented supervisor, in contrast to the production-oriented, or institution-oriented supervisor gives ma…"