This became a remarkable partnership enabling the rigorous testing of the theory in real time. Every aspect of the company’s organisation and functioning was analysed and developed and the basic concepts of Stratified Systems Theory
(SST)were formed. As part of this work two key discoveries were ‘time-span of discretion’ and ‘felt-fair pay’. In 1965 Glacier metal was acquired by Associated Engineering Ltd (AE) and the application of the theory spread across the larger
firm when several Glacier executives became successive Managing Directors of AE. This lasted until 1990.