The Functions of the Executive: Thirtieth Anniversary EditionMost of Chester Barnard’s career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the bachelor’s degree, was followed by nearly forty years in the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. His career began in the Statistical Department, took him to technical expertness in the economics of rates and administrative experience in the management of commercial operations, and culminated in the presidency of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. He was not directly involved in the Western Electric experiments conducted chiefly at the Hawthorne plant in Cicero, but his association with Elton Mayo and the latter’s colleagues at the Harvard Business School had an important bearing on his most original ideas. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
THE INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATION | 19 |
PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS IN COOPERATIVE SYS | 35 |
THE PRINCIPLES OF COOPERATIVE ACTION | 46 |
THE DEFINITION OF FORMAL ORGANIZATION | 65 |
THE THEORY OF FORMAL ORGANIZATION | 82 |
THE STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS | 96 |
INFORMAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR RELATION TO FORMAL | 114 |
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