ABSTRACT
The McCabe company was a medium-sized contracting firm employing 1,500 people. Owing to the nature of the contracting work performed by the company, many of the approximately 100 supervisors in the company worked on isolated sites visited very infrequently by members of the company's management. The more junior supervisors rarely if ever met members of senior management. The administrative and technical supervisors in the company's office, on the other hand, had regular personal contact with senior management in the course of their work. The senior foremen on the outside sites reported directly to members of the senior company management. These supervisors also had frequent contact with each other.
