Carolina QuotesExecutives were closely observed at work at their desks, at staff meetings, while talking with inmates or moving about the grounds and so on, and again in the feedback sessions when we gave them findings.
Charles Perrow Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 48
- work
- Organization for treatment, 1966
- year
- 1966
- locator
- p. 48
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