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31 But in a self-defeating organization, dysfunctional attitudes become tenets of belief for entire groups of individuals.

32 If it has to be backed up by close supervision and control a point may be reached where such activities are self-defeating.

33 This, in a nutshell, is how closed organizational systems become self-defeating.

34 Absorbing Costs Self-defeating techniques yield consequences that most organizations would just as soon not deal with.

35 But bear in mind that self-defeating organizations function according to their own peculiar form of behavioral logic.

36 It prevents an enterprise from falling into the self-defeating trap of rewarding one constituent group repeatedly, and repeatedly penalizing others.

37 Why do the retraining efforts of self-defeating organizations tend to create at least as many difficulties as they resolve?

38 Minimizing is the first technique a self-defeating organization uses to avoid responsibility for the costs of its counterproductive actions.

39 As a result of diminishing confidence and conflicting internal impulses[http://Sentencedict.com], the organization inevitably falls into patterns of self-defeating organizational behavior.

40 At this stage, the need to control war to prevent it becoming a tragic and self-defeating activity demanded strong action.

41 It would be absurd and self-defeating to ask poor families to pay the taxes needed to finance their welfare payments!

42 Statements like this confirmed our suspicions about self-defeating organizational behavior patterns.

43 The equal opportunities strategy is, the writers claim, likely to be self-defeating.

44 As this diagram suggests, a self-defeating organiza-tional behavior pattern is more than a single misguided strategy or reaction.

45 In nearly every way, false open-mindedness conforms to the pattern of a self-defeating organizational behavior.

46 In this sense, Keynes's General Theory may well be regarded as self-defeating in terms of its impact on political economy.

47 None the less, we must admit to grave reservations about what passes for training in the typical self-defeating organization.

48 Among certain kinds of self-defeating organiza-tions, we see a similar phenomenon at work.

49 It's time to end the self-defeating cycle of overeating and dieting.

50 Or did the threshold of success have to be put so low that it represented something self-defeating?

51 But this would rule out so many of our statements as insignificant that it would be self-defeating.

52 Attempts to stir up nationalistic feeling at such times are bound to be self-defeating.

53 Through the actions and attitudes of struggling individuals, the true costs of self-defeating organizational behavior are made manifest.

54 A pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.

55 Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating.

56 That is the syndrome. It is self-defeating and self-sabotaging.

57 Kennedy handled the firestorm of outrage with self-defeating smugness.

58 Critics argue that the government's hand-to-mouth policymaking is self-defeating, and illustrates its general lack of planning.

59 Those who use self-defeating humor, making fun of themselves for the enjoyment of others, tend to maintain that hostility toward themselves even when alone.

60 Accordingly, saving is self-defeating, as a loss in income will disallow individuals to save over the long-run.