indulgency pattern
Noun
A management style in which the manager makes certain concessions to subordinates, rather than strictly enforcing every rule.
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Clearly, he was appointed to 'tighten things up' and quickly acted to replace the indulgency pattern with a much more demanding and tightly organised system.
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Gouldner's analysis focuses on how this process unfolded in the gypsum mine, though he suggests that the origin of these indulgency patterns are in part derived from community life outside the mine.
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indulgency patterns