- Pavlov’s dogs
- Reference to conditioned responses; people who respond to management’s stimuli. Refers to the research of the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov, who conducted stimulus-response experiments with dogs.
American business jargon. 2014.
Pavlov’s dogs
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