Rlchard Pettlnger

Finding dignity and worth

‘‘This philosophy of mine, I want to emphasize, had nothing to do with paternalism. Many intellectuals have heads full of labor regulations and laws, rather than their own thoughts and feelings. The reason why I feel so grateful for being at Sony is that I have been assigned a job here in which I can find dignity and worth, and that I am being paid on that basis. I have been assigned work

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to which I can devote all I have and from which I am able to derive the supreme reward. ’’

‘‘We must try our best to give others what we want for ourselves; that is, give them something to live for in their jobs, give them stability from day to day and from year to year. Managers who think that it is their prerogative to let people who are different do jobs which the managers themselves would not like to do have no place at Sony.’’