Managing Large Systems : Organizations for the Future

Chandler, Margaret K., Sayles, Leonard A.

ISBN 10: 0060457554 / ISBN 13: 9780060457556

Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1971

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Managing Large Systems : Organizations for the Future
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060457554
• ISBN 13: 9780060457556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.56 pounds

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Synopsis

Managing Large Systems examines a wide range of human, organizational, and managerial challenges associated with large systems. Special attention is given to the behavioral relationships among scientists and engineers, business and technical managers, sponsor organizations and their contractors, business and government offi cials, and line and functional managers.

About the Author

Leonard R. Sayles served as a consultant to the administrator of NASA in the late 1960s. He is a senior research scientist at the Center for Graduate School of Business. Among his other books are Managerial Behavior, Leadership; Managing in Real Organizations; and Leaders Who Make Organizations Work (in press).

Margaret K. Chandler, before her recent death, was a professor at Columbia University. Before that she held similar posts at the University of Chicago and then at the Center for Advanced Study in the Graduate College at the University of Illinois. She was the McKinsey Award winner for her book Management Rights and Urban Interests.