(Classified)FINAL COMMENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06365A000500050016-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 1998
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Approved For Release 1999/09/26 : CIA-RDP78-063vA000500050016-6
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FINAL COMMENTS
Re Readings
Best B. knows of at this time.
Wants to know which were valuable, etc.
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Re Books
The ones that say something, at least in part, about this new Z
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McGregor has a book on the way--an expansion of his article-
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"Guard of Honor" -- good book. B. recommends highly.
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General re seminar
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c.f. Vance's behavior - "a daily insult".
Ubiquity of training
One is always training - what one does encourages others
Food for thought--if some ferment, B. is content. We are into tj
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Re MacGregor
"Y" now stands on reasonably secure research findings
more so than "X".
We are on the brink of long exploration rg effective admin. in
in organization context. Industry is just beginning to pay
some attention to "Y".
MacGregor - human motivation has been misinterpreted and is now
dine for re-examination - far-reaching effects on org. behavior.
View of org. as a system (self-developing, changing, etc.) not a
machine - organic rather than mechanistic tLewpoint.
Mgr's role is that of feedback operator - to mirror, encourage,etc.
(See Mary P. Follett)
Our work together has been a collaborative effort. Psychologists seem to agree -
human organism' seems to have to reach beyond itself for more, to "complicate"
itself. This must be present - so, there B. hopes that members can assist
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A positive way of looking
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introduced the Seminar with obvious enthusiasm. He finished his
introduction with an admonition that full participation in the
discussions was essential to the practical benefits we would each
25X1A5a1 derive from the course. followed up with a clear state-
ment of his participation rules. He made it plain that with 33 of us
he would have to insist upon orderly sessions and that he would call
\ upon those of us who raised our hands to signify a wish to speak. He
made a point of the fact that he might not be able to reach us when we
indicated a desire to speak, but that he would remember and return when
A5a1 he could: good rules, completely understandable and acceptable.
criticism stems from the fact that from the first session
did not follow his own rules. He permitted almost anyone to interrupt
at any time he chose. This left the rest of us wishing to speak a
choice either to follow his rules or begin interrupting. By Wednesday
of the first week, the situation was such that I suggested to an OTR
25X1A5a1 member that e reminded of his participation rule and suggested
he either follow it or change it. By the second Monday the situation
appeared almost completely out of hand, with three or four persons being
permitted to dominate the discussions by unrestrained interruptions.
Interruptions continued to the end of the Seminar with as many as three
by one person during a session. Likewise, some persons were called
upon two and three times during a session, while others desiring to
speak were apparently ignored. This had a depressing effect and since
it was such an irritation, I suspect it was largely the cause of only
six invited speakers and six interrupters (nine persons in all) at the
before-noon session on the second Tuesday. At that low point the majority
25X1A5a1 of the grow a eared to me to be sullen "passive absorbers" and probably
prompted remark that "the Tocsin has sounded" without his
realizing that some of us weren't tired -- just somewhat disgusted.
25X1A5a1 3. To recap the negative: I care not 'whether methods
were by design or Just happened. They succeeded na ng me to an
extreme degree and constituted the one serious flaw in an otherwise
rewarding two weeks. We were not competing for grades or his agreement
in our ideas. We were there, as I had read and been told, to share our
ideas (however odd they might appear to others) with his expert touch
to moderate and guide us to the root(s) of the problem(s). I offer
these rather lengthy observations for the sole purpose of suggesting
Appr lot ~CAUNJO' Pei Call m~E pm~f3 a y A Pevo Or 5 substance of the course.