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Fear as Infrastructure: The Psychology of Insecurity and the Self-Perpetuating Loop in Organizational Culture

Fear as Infrastructure: The Psychology of Insecurity and the Self-Perpetuating Loop in Organizational Culture

McLean, Elizabeth

Paperback

General Psychology

ISBN13: 9798191240725
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 7 2026
Pages: 462
Weight: 2.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

Organizations often treat fear as an unfortunate side effect of high standards. This book treats it as something more consequential: a designed and self-reinforcing feature of how many workplaces evaluate, rank, monitor, and lead people.

Fear as Infrastructure: The Psychology of Insecurity and the Self-Perpetuating Loop in Organizational Culture explains how insecurity is initiated by threat and scarcity cues, amplified through social learning and silence, institutionalized in systems and norms, and reproduced through selection and socialization. It shows why short-term compliance so often coexists with longer-term erosion of voice, innovation, ethics, health, and capability-and why the same pattern appears, with important variations, in technology firms, banks, hospitals, factories, professional services, public agencies, military organizations, and non-profits.

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