15 Facts About Elliott Jaques

Elliott Jaques was a Canadian psychoanalyst, social scientist and management consultant known as the originator of concepts such as corporate culture, midlife crisis, fair pay, maturation curves, time span of discretion and requisite organization, as a total system of managerial organization.

Elliott Jaques was a founding fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Britain and was a visiting professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC, and honorary professor of the University of Buenos Aires.

Elliott Jaques was assigned as liaison to the British Army War Office Psychiatry Division that developed their own War Office Selection Boards.

Elliott Jaques appreciated his help in preparation for the publication of her book Narrative of a Child Analysis.

Elliott Jaques helped Klein to edit the manuscript of Envy and Gratitude, evidence suggests that it was Elliott Jaques who suggested that the word "gratitude" should be included in the title of the book.

Elliott Jaques was a founding member of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations in 1946.

Elliott Jaques became a research professor at George Washington University.

In 1999 Elliott Jaques established Requisite Organization International Institute, that operates as an educational and research group.

In 1965 Elliott Jaques published an essay on working patterns of creative geniuses in which he coined the phrase midlife crisis.

At one point, Elliott Jaques was asked if there was any importance to the fact that the salary of low-level workers was estimated on hourly, daily or weekly basis, while salary of executives was described as annual amount.

Elliott Jaques incorporated his findings during "Glacier investigations" into what was first known as Stratified Systems Theory of requisite organization.

Elliott Jaques continued his development of theory of underlying Nature of Human Capability, that he first approached during his work with the US Army and this resulted in the discovery of a method for evaluation of potential individual capability within the evaluation of Complexity of Information Processing.

The measure of how much responsibility an employee has is the concept Elliott Jaques is widely known for.

Elliott Jaques' ideas are still very influential in a practical study of organizations and the optimization of structures and systems that support productive work for the achievement of the organization's purpose.

Elliott Jaques argued that the higher a person was positioned in a hierarchy, assuming the individual possessed a corresponding level of cognitive complexity, acquired skills and knowledge and presuming that individual valued the work he or she was tasked, the longer he could work to complete a task without supervision.