What is essential is that nothing should inhibit individual… - Tom Burns

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What is essential is that nothing should inhibit individuals from applying to others for information and advice, or for additional effort. This in turn depends on the ability to suppress differences of status and of technical prestige on occasions of working interaction, and on the absence of barriers to communication founded on functional preserves, privilege, or personal reserve.

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Tom Burns FBA (16 January 1913 - 20 June 2001) was a prominent British sociologist, author and founder of the Sociology department at . He is known for his pioneering work on contingency theory.

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