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Making organisations work

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  • © 1978

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  1. Trevor Owen
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Part of the book series: International Series on the Quality of Working Life (IQWL, volume 7)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The management energy crisis

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    Pages 1-3

  3. Industry in a social perspective

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    Pages 4-26

  4. Sources of energy within the organisation

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    Pages 27-46

  5. Using the energy sources

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    Pages 47-68

  6. Creating energy networks

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    Pages 69-80

  7. Management decision making

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    Pages 81-96

  8. The nature of the management task and the problems of achieving it

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    Pages 97-119

  9. Who’s on our side?

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    Pages 120-133

  10. Come back leadership, all is forgiven!

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    Pages 134-149

  11. Management energy—a conservation plan

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    Pages 150-154

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 155-159
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About this book

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Making organisations work

  • Authors: Trevor Owen

  • Series Title: International Series on the Quality of Working Life

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4093-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Trevor Owen 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-207-0779-3Published: 31 July 1978

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-4093-5Published: 01 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 184

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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