[ Elliot Jaques ]

It’s a bit of a puzzle that I’ve done management consulting work, and I don’t recall coming across the work of Elliot Jaques (1917-2003). I had to look him up.

He’s apparently a ‘controversial Canadian theorist’.  One article, though, proved we’re not related. He pronounced our surname “Jacks”, whereas my (correct) pronunciation is “Jakes”.

I’ll dabble into his theories.  The marked thing is the origin question he explored:  whether there is any importance to the fact that the salary of low-level workers is estimated on hourly, daily, or weekly basis, while salary of executives is described as an annual amount.