Jaques, Elliott

Jaques, Elliott
▪ 2004

      Canadian-born psychologist and social analyst (b. Jan. 18, 1917, Toronto, Ont.—d. March 8, 2003, Gloucester, Mass.), developed the concept of corporate culture and coined the term mid-life crisis. In 1946 Jaques became a founding member of London's Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. In 1952 he began an association with Glacier Metal, where he developed his theory of time frames and requisite organization. He believed that different individuals were capable of carrying out tasks in a variety of time frames and that organizations should be arranged hierarchically on the basis of these time-frame capabilities—that is, employees who were capable of carrying out the long-range tasks should be at the top of the hierarchy. His investigations into the lives of creative geniuses revealed that very frequently such people experienced a marked decline in activity or a major change in style at about their mid-30s; he published the paper “Death and the Mid-life Crisis” in 1965. In that same year he became head of the social sciences department of Brunel University, Uxbridge, Eng. Jaques worked with an Australian mining company, a number of government organizations, the Church of England, and the U.S. Army. He was the author of more than 20 books, among them The General Theory of Bureaucracy (1976) and Requisite Organization (1989).

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