Managing the Human Animal: Why People Behave the Way They Do in Corporate Settings
- ISBN-10
- 184203023X
- ISBN-13
- 9781842030233
- Category
- Genetic psychology
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Orion Business
- Author
- Nigel Nicholson
Description
Time and time again managers have tried to eliminate hierarchies, politics and interorganizational rivalry - but to no avail. Why? Evolutionary psychology would say that they are working against human nature - emotional and behavioural hardwiring that is the legacy of our Stone Age ancestors.
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