Sheer size eroded personal responsibility, diffused risk, and eventually condoned evil.
The making of law by custom is not incompatible with this thesis; it amounts to a positing of law by the people, considered as having a diffused authority and responsibility for their own community.
And because of deregulation elsewhere, responsibility was diffused: nobody had a strong stake in keeping the system reliable.
"As a result, we have created a culture, both on this campus and nationally, that is disconnected from our students, faculty and other constituents, where responsibility is diffused, the potential for abuse considerable and the costs -- both financial and academic -- unsustainable".
Their decisions are slower their energy less their responsibility more diffused.
Though management responsibility was diffused a decade ago with the addition of a "managing director" title, a sort of junior partnership, it is the Goldman Sachs partners, the top 1% in a company of 25,000 overachievers, who run its businesses and reap the greatest rewards.
Studies have shown that in large group settings, like that of a college party, people feel less obligated to take action when they notice something suspicious since their responsibility is diffused among multiple bystanders.
In general, web-related records management-related responsibilities are diffused throughout the laboratory to the programs that create web content or other offices managing the website, per NARA policy.
In his classic work on the role of groups and media exposure in violence, the social cognitive psychologist Alfred Bandura found that, as personal responsibility becomes more diffused in a group, people tend to dehumanize others and become more aggressive toward them.
