The Reality of Organizations - A Guide for Managers

Aiming to help the practising manager in any kind of organization, this book discusses and illustrates: the main decisions to be made in establishing or modifying an organization; the most common organizational problems; and what can be done to prevent or correct them.

List of contents

Part 1 Theory: ways of looking at organizations. Part 2 Tasks of organization: what kind of jobs?; how to group activities; co-ordination - problems and remedies. Part 3 Some common organizational problems: superior-subordinate relationships; the manager and the specialist; managerial relations; how much decentralization?; order versus flexibility; the changing organization; changing the organization; providing managers for changing organizations; conclusions - what can go wrong?

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary Stewart
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1993
• EAN: 9780333595510
• ISBN: 978-0-333-59551-0
• No. of pages: 193
• Weight: 320 g
• Illustrations: X, 193 p.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management