The Process of Management / Concepts, Behavior, and Practice - 4th - Prentice Hall, 1977 - 674

Preface, Social Role of Managers, Organizing: Structural Design, Designing Operating Units, Designing the Hiercharchy: Delegating and Decentrlizing, Use of Staff, Effect of Growth on Structure, New Approaches to Structural Design, Human Factors in Organizing, Personal Needs and Organization Design, Group Behavior and Organization Design, Intergroup Conflict: Sources and Resolution, Matching Jobs and Individuals, Elements of Rational Decision-Making, Diagnosis: A Prerequisite for Sound Decisions, The Creative Element in Decision-Making, Comparing Courses of Action, Making the Choice, Decision-Making in an Enterprise, Decision-Making as Group Behavior, Master Strategy and Long-Range Programming, Operating Objectives, Planning for Stabilized Action, Adaptive Programming, Intraorganization Politics, Controlling, Basic Elements of Control, PERT and Budgetary Control, Behavioral Responses to Controls, Activating, Gaining Understanding, Need for Synthesis, Conclusion, Index.

Preface, Social Role of Managers, Organizing: Structural Design, Designing Operating Units, Designing the Hiercharchy: Delegating and Decentrlizing, Use of Staff, Effect of Growth on Structure, New Approaches to Structural Design, Human Factors in Organizing, Personal Needs and Organization Design, Group Behavior and Organization Design, Intergroup Conflict: Sources and Resolution, Matching Jobs and Individuals, Elements of Rational Decision-Making, Diagnosis: A Prerequisite for Sound Decisions, The Creative Element in Decision-Making, Comparing Courses of Action, Making the Choice, Decision-Making in an Enterprise, Decision-Making as Group Behavior, Master Strategy and Long-Range Programming, Operating Objectives, Planning for Stabilized Action, Adaptive Programming, Intraorganization Politics, Controlling, Basic Elements of Control, PERT and Budgetary Control, Behavioral Responses to Controls, Activating, Gaining Understanding, Need for Synthesis, Conclusion, Index.

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