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Title: Achieving Society by David C. McClelland ISBN: 0-02-920510-7 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.25 |
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Summary: fascinating document from a failed research program
Comment: This book documents a research program of McClelland and associates in the late 1950s and 1960s to isolate and document the "achievement motive" ascribed to individuals (or groups) as an explanation of "the rise and fall of civilizations," largely unmediated by the influence of institutions or other social or historical forces. Although it is fair to say that little if any of this perspective would be accepted by contemporary social scientists, the book is fascinating in retrospect as it documents McClelland and Co.'s attempts to quantify the "achievement motive" for example by scoring the content of folk tales, elementary school reading primers, and popular music, and then the linkage of these measures to other social outcomes, complete with ex post rationalizations of the results (or lack of results) obtained in these exercises.
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Title:Power Is the Great Motivator (Classic) (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) by David C. McClelland, David H. Burnham ASIN: B00005REHI Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 27 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.00 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $7.00 |
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Title: The Ultimate Advantage by Edward E. Lawler ISBN: 1555424147 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 15 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: Corporate Culture and Performance by John P. Kotter, James L. Heskett ISBN: 0029184673 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor ISBN: 0486299880 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Culture : Based on the Competing Values Framework (Addison-Wesley Series on Organization Development) by Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn ISBN: 0201338718 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 10 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $38.60 |
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