indulgency pattern

English

Noun

indulgency pattern (plural indulgency patterns)

1. A management style in which the manager makes certain concessions to subordinates, rather than strictly enforcing every rule.
   • 1985, Meredydd G. Hughes, Peter Ribbins, Hywel Thomas, Managing Education: The System and the Institution, page 230:

     Clearly, he was appointed to 'tighten things up' and quickly acted to replace the indulgency pattern with a much more demanding and tightly organised system.

   • 1999, Charles S. Varano, Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership, page 201:

     Gouldner's analysis focuses on how this process unfolded in the gypsum mine, though he suggests that the origin of these indulgency patterns are in part derived from community life outside the mine.