Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 15 (p. 21 in 2006 edition)
“If there is a single assumption which pervades conventional organizational theory, it is that authority is the central, indispensable means of managerial control.”
Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 18 (2006; 24)
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Catherine Truss, Lynda Gratton, Veronica Hope-Hailey, Patrick McGovern and Philip Stiles (1997). "Soft and hard models of human resource management: a reappraisal." Journal of Management Studies, 34(1), 53-73.
Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 6 (2006; 8)
Lex Donaldson, "The normal science of structural contingency theory." Studying Organizations: Theory and Method. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage (1999): 51-70.
Context: Within organization studies, contingency theory has provided a coherent paradigm for the analysis of the structure of organizations. The paradigm has constituted a framework in which research progressed leading to the construction of a scientific body of knowledge... Contingency theory states that there is no single organizational structure that is highly effective for all organizations. It sees the structure that is optimal as varying according to certain factors such as organizational strategy or size. Thus the optimal structure is contingent upon these factors which are termed the contingency factors. For example, a small-sized organization, one that has few employees, is optimally structured by a centralized structure in which decision-making authority is concentrated at the top of the hierarchy, whereas a large organization, one that has many employees, is optimally structured by a decentralized structure in which decision-making authority is dispersed down to lower levels of the hierarchy.
Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 17 (2006: 24)
Source: Organizations: Theoretical Debates and the Scope of Organizational Theory, 2001, p. 1
Source: The Managerial Revolution, 1941, p. 7, as cited in: Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 12-13

Source: "The Origins of Organizational Theory," 2005, p. 143
“Behind every managerial decision or action are assumptions about human nature and human behavior.”
Source: The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), p. 33
Source: The transformation of corporate control, 1993, p. 10 ; As cited in: François L'Italien, BÉHÉMOTH CAPITAL. Contribution à une théorie dialectique de la financiarisation de la grande corporation. Université Laval, 2012. p. 147 (Many of the following quotes came from this source)