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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9108408" data-attributes="member: 42582">The phrase "feeling of agency" appears to presuppose that there is a phenomenon - agency - that people can feel they are enjoying more or less of.Now grammar isn't everything, but I want to see some sort of argument that the thing people feel they have doesn't exist outside of their feeling.Particularly in the context of management theory, which is about exercising control and engendering compliance by those over whom control is being exercised, and so is concerned with making people feel like they are part of decisions that in fact they are not part of.You keep saying this. I replied to it upthread but you didn't respond, so I'll have another go:</blockquote>