Word: zaleznik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zaleznik, who teaches the psychology of business management said he plans use the endowment's funds to conduct research in such areas of research as the effect of French nationalization on business leaders and the problems of "corporate governance" in Sweden...
...Abraham Zaleznik, currently Cahners Rabb Professor of Social Psychology of Management, was named the first Konosuka Matsushita Professor of Leadership. The chair's namesake is chairman of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd. of Japan, an international concern which sells electronic equipment under the Panasonic, Technical and Quasar brands in the United States...
...endowment is intended to sponsor research and doctoral programs in the area of business leadership. "The Business School and American society has proven that it can train good managers but we need leaders," Zaleznik said, adding that the chair represents a "quantum leap and shows Harvard's commitment to leadership...
...donation is the product of a March, 1981, trip to Japan during which Zaleznik and C. Roland Christensen, Baker Professor of Business Administration, approached the 89-year-old Matsushita about endowing a chair...
...work, Zaleznik draws on a tiny, relatively unknown 1921 book by Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. In it Freud attempted to get beyond conventional descriptions of group behavior by showing that in "artificial groups, each individual is bound by libidinal ties on the one hand to the leader and on the other hand to the other members." The members love the leader and share a common "illusion" that the leader "loves all the individuals in the groups with an equal love." Freud cited the Roman Catholic Church and the military as examples of cohesive groups...