Measurement of Responsibility

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1956 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Edited by Jaques, Elliott

Part 1 The Problem; Chapter 1 The Recurrence of Payment Disputes; Part 2 The Glacier Experience; Chapter 2 The Problem of Status and Salaries; Chapter 3 The Maximum Time-Span of Discretion; Chapter 4 Analysis of Status and Salary Problems; Chapter 5 Manual Work and the Hourly-Rated Operator; Chapter 6 The Current Situation; Part 3 Theoretical Considerations; Chapter 7 Notes on the Psychological Meaning of Work; Chapter 8 Some Socio-Economic Implications; Chapter 9 Conclusion;