Family Mentality for Control and Motivation in Organizations: A Theoretical Perspective

This paper explores the concept of “Family Mentality” and its nature as a motivational tool. Family mentality is a method used in many social institutions and organizations with a view to sustainable growth in popularity towards aggrandizement. The characteristics of this mindset are analyzed with both pros and cons being listed and weighed. Several real life cases have gone through to obtain a realistic understanding of this technique for motivation and control, and its inherent morality is found in both industrial and social organizations especially in this sandwich generation by the sociologists and psychologists.