The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office”

Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas. And in Jamesian solitude, Sociopaths find ideas contending in their minds. The creative destruction they script in the world of Losers and Clueless is mirrored by a creative destruction in their minds. This process creates power, but destroys meaning, especially th

the local manager and the central administrator invested time in classifying the role of a third person, the actual worker, with a net value-added of zero for all of their efforts, which was actually nearly a net negative. How should a large organization classify its people? Or maybe the right question to ask is: should a large organization classif

Managers have a tendency to amass and exert power. Employees have a tendency to follow orders.

workplace, read “Determinants of Perceived Fairness of Performance Evaluations,” by Jerald Greenberg, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology 71 (1986): 340–42. You can also read “Effects of Procedural and Distributive Justice on Reactions to Pay Raise Decisions,” by Robert Folger and Mary Konovsky, published in the Academy of Management Jou