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Industrial Organization and Management
Publication of the sixth Organization and Management marks the text's 34th anniversary in print. Over the years it has tutored hundreds of thousands of students in the United States and it has been translated for use by students in other nations. The six editions have recorded the tremendous changes in industrial practices and technology which have occurred since World War II. while stressing the continued reliance on sound principles of management required to accommodate those changes. The original objectives of the text remain intact: to present an overview of the operations of an industrial orga-nization. the interrelationship of functions. and the fundamental principles of management which lead toward effective coordination and control.
The intent of the new edition is to survey the overall workings of industrial systems while highlighting the individual skills needed to make an enterprise work better. Implementation of this intent led to extensive revisions. Presentations in some areas are more succinct to allow greater coverage of recent developments. Added attention is devoted to managerial practices and techniques of general applicability.
Interactions among consumers. government. and industry are explored to help anticipate industrial challenges of the 1980s.
The most prominent new feature is the addition of Perspectives. Over a hundred short digests and discussions of special topics drawn from recent literature are spotted throughout the text. Some offer controversial opinions or expand on the conventional interpretation of operating policies. Others focus on current concerns critical to the long-term health of industry. such as
* coping with the paperwork explosion
* expectations for improving the quality of working life
* corporate ethics and white-collar crime
* the push for productivity
* effects of the consumer movement
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