ABSTRACT
The larger the organization the greater the likelihood that the individual will tend to be lost in it and feel that he has no effective say in decision making. Many a teacher is a sadder and a wiser man for working under conditions which sapped his patience, denied him outlets for initiative and left him utterly frustrated. Many an industrial executive has been driven to distraction by directives which arrived on his desk from some faceless authority against which there was no appeal. In these situations, the British philosophy is fatalistic: ‘Just one of those things’, we say, as if neither we, nor anyone else, could do anything about it. Alternatively, we ascribe the shortcomings of an imperfect state of affairs to a mythical entity, ‘the system’. Professing to be ‘agin the system’, indeed, is fast becoming a national pastime, a hobby horse for ineffectual angels.
