The Structuring of Organizations: A Synthesis of the ResearchMonograph comprising a literature survey and review of research on organizational structure, particularly business organizations - considers job design, job enrichment and job enlargement, bureaucracy and behaviour formulization, training and indoctrination, design of superstructure (incl. Unit grouping and size), planning and control, managerial liaison, decision making, age and size of enterprise factors, organization development, etc. Bibliography pp. 481 to 496, diagrams and flow charts. |
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PARTI HOW THE ORGANIZATION FUNCTIONS | 17 |
THE DESIGN PARAMETERS | 65 |
Training and Indoctrination | 95 |
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