In a community mental health center which stressed professional colleagueship
and deemphasized administrative power, unilateral use of authority presented
recurring, contingent crises. Two episodes are compared and analyzed to reveal
negotiation as the primary mechanism of controlling equals and to indicate
collective behavior as an alternative course toward negotiated order when routine
channels of communication are blocked.
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