4 Quotes & Sayings By Robert Jackall

Robert Jackall is a professor of psychology at Cornell University. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Consumer Research and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Consumer Psychology. He is also a past president of the American Psychological Association and a former editor-in-chief of the American Psychological Association's Review of General Psychology.

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Younger managers learn quickly that, whatever the public protestations to the contrary, bosses generally want pliable and agreeable subordinates, especially during periods of crisis. Clique leaders want dependable, loyal allies. Thos who regularly raise objections to what a boss or a clique leader really desires run the risk of being considered problems themselves and of being labeled "outspoken, " or "nonconstructive, " or "doomsayers, " "naysayers, " or "crepehangers. Robert Jackall
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The manager comes to see all relationships with others by a strict utilitarian calculus and, insofar as he dares, breaks friendships and alliances accordingly. Robert Jackall
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The most feared situation is to end up inadvertently in the wrong place at the wrong time and get blamed. Yet this is exactly what happens in a structure that systematically diffuses responsibility. It is because managers fear blame-time that they diffuse responsibility; however such a diffusion inevitably means that someone, somewhere is going to become a scapegoat when things go wrong. Robert Jackall