Argyris: Why Machine Workers Left The Factory?

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Argyris says that people ay leave the company because they experience frustration, failure, and conflict. Also he states that they can become apathetic and uninterested. Argyris studies how machine workers left the factory because they could work out of the factory for almost the same wage. They interviewed eighteen people and eleven of them work full or part time out doors. All of them were rate above average workers by management. An interesting thing was that all the people had seniority and were not new hires. An interesting thing that Argyris says that conflict can lead to people work harder to climb the latter and become the leader. This is an interesting point because people tend to leave because of some conflict. I asked a person that

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