Managers Managing : the Workings of an Administrative System.
This study explores the inner workings of administrative systems in the public sector, and examines what managers actually do, why they act in the ways they do, what influences their focus of attention, which issues or people within an organization attract them, and which they avoid.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
1989.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction; Some Antecedents; Overview; 2 The Nature of Administrative Systems; Administrative Systems; Help from Theories Past and Present; A Different Approach; 3 On Studying Managerial Work; Traditional Approaches; The Methods of This Study; 4 Pivotal Behavioral Characteristics; Reactive Behavior; Interactive Behavior; 5 Supply Creates Demands; Characteristics of Managerial Interactions; A Process of Administrative Expansion; Other Explanations for Administrative Expansion; 6 Blinders and Biases; Segregation of the Top; Inhibited Search and Flow at Lower Levels.
- Routine and Nonroutine WorkSolutions; 7 The Importance of Being Important; Distribution of Important Work; Determinants of Importance; Implications for the Working of Administrative Systems; 8 What If ...?; Structural Changes; Environmental Changes; 9 Putting It Together; Appendix; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.