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LARGE industrial and other concerns represent their personnel organization diagrammatically by means of a chart having the form of a genealogical table. Properly constructed, this chart gives concise information as to individual rank and duties and relations, but no information regarding fundamental functions and mentality types at different levels. Moreover, the chart conveys the impression of descent instead of growth, differentiation and organic unity. It is therefore biologically unscientific and inadequate for administrative educational purposes.
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DUNLOP, W. A Psycho-geometrical Representation of Personnel Organization. Nature 140, 152–153 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140152c0
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