| Making Organisations Work Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Owen, T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9020707795 ISBN-13: 9789020707793 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1978 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Leadership - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 658.4 |
| LCCN: 78012255 |
| Series: International Series on the Quality of Working Life |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6" W x 9" (0.52 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I have worked as a manager in a large industrial organisation for the last twenty years. During that time I have seen the job of a manager change almost out of recognition in both complexity and difficulty. For the last five ofthose years I have held ajob which has been much concerned with the problems which managers face under these cir- cumstances, and I have been in the position to discuss these pro- blems with people doing similar jobs in other large organisations, who have in turn often asked me for advice on their problems. The result has been to build up a general picture of the manager in large and complex industrial organisations and of those practices which will help him or her to be effective and those which will not. I suspect that the picture which emerges is one which may have some validity for large and complex organisations in other spheres - trade unions, for instance, or the civil service - but I have no first-hand evidence to show whether this is so or not. It is a picture which is certainly not so relevant for small organisations. These (and I have had the pleasure of working in some from time to time) have their own problems, but they tend to be different ones. |