The Reality of Organizations A Guide for Managers [Paperback]

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.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?