by Theodore Caplow
This
book is for any man or women who is head of an organization. The organization
may be as small as a racing crew or as large as a multinational corporation;
the principles of management will be the same and the difficulties to be
overcome will be similar.
Most books about management attempt to show executives and administrators at all levels how to perform their assignments efficiently and how to work effectively with superiors, equals, and subordinates. This book has nothing to say about working with superiors and equals; it assumes that you, the reader are supermen in your domain. Even though the organization you lead may be part of a larger organization, this volume has nothing to say about getting along with capricious superiors and competitive colleagues. It is solely concerned with the challenging problem of how you can run your own organization so that your authority is secure, communications are good, the purposes of the organization are effectively fulfilled, the people in it want to stay, and changes in your organization's environment are successfully handled as they arise.
An earlier version of this book was called How to Run Any Organization, too cocky a title for so serious a book, but otherwise accurate. The present book is thinner because the basic principles of managing an organization successfully happen to be rather simple and straightforward.
More books by Theodore Caplow
The
First Measured Century: An Illustrated Gude to Trends in America, 1900-2000
Sociologie Militaire
The Academic Market Place
Peace Games
Perverse
Incentives - The Neglect of Social Technology in the Public Sector
Elementary Sociology
Recent Social
Trends in the United States 1960-1990
Leviathan
Transformed - Seven National States in the New Century
The Sociology of Work
The Urban
Ambience
Principles of Organization
Two Against One: Coalitions
in Triad
Old Men Drunk and Sober
Toward Social Hope
Middletown Families: Fifty Years of Change & Continuity
All
Faithful People: Change & Continuity in Middletown's Religion
American Social Trends
Systems of War & Peace
This site
is maintained by Brenda Tekin for the
Sociology Department of the University of Virginia. Images on this site are
provided by
ITC at UVA, the University of Virginia Library, Sharon Hays, Brenda Tekin
& Tammy Ashley.