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A note on tension reduction in the national railroad adjustment board system
Author(s) -
Lazar Joseph
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830070407
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , reduction (mathematics) , government (linguistics) , tension (geology) , principal–agent problem , control theory (sociology) , economics , operations research , psychology , public administration , political science , engineering , mathematics , sociology , management , philosophy , social science , thermodynamics , physics , control (management) , corporate governance , geometry , linguistics , compression (physics)
This paper examines a government agency as a behavioral system and tests certain hypotheses derived from the application of systems theory to this agency.