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  • noun Plural form of relationist.

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Examples

  • And may not the 'relationists' be right after all?

    Meaning of Truth William James 1876

  • And these days the geographers are tending to be a whole lot more right than the historians and international relationists.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Tomorrow People 2007

  • And these days the geographers are tending to be a whole lot more right than the historians and international relationists.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Tomorrow People 2007

  • However, overlapping, cross-training, rotation, and other forms of sharing responsibilities to increase the reliability of the system are encouraged by human relationists when informal relationships are developed among workers who are committed to see that their group prospers.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • For structuralists, the decision maker is the superior in the situation; for human relationists, the decision is shared or delegated to the subordinates as much as possible.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • For structuralists, the decision maker is the superior in the situation; for human relationists, the decision is shared or delegated to the subordinates as much as possible.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • However, overlapping, cross-training, rotation, and other forms of sharing responsibilities to increase the reliability of the system are encouraged by human relationists when informal relationships are developed among workers who are committed to see that their group prospers.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Human relationists argue that organizations require much communicating, reporting, proposing, influencing, complying, and deciding in complex vertical, diagonal, and horizontal paths that are not shown on the formal organizational charts.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Human relationists argue that organizations require much communicating, reporting, proposing, influencing, complying, and deciding in complex vertical, diagonal, and horizontal paths that are not shown on the formal organizational charts.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

  • Neither the structuralists nor the human relationists have a monopoly on the most effective design Bass & Ryterband, 1979.

    The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008

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