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The book on Moses opens our understanding to the ancient times teaching us principles of life, leadership and management. This book gives us a total understanding that in management and leadership practices must be based on enduring principles. The very reason why we need to read Moses' life as introduced in this great book. Finally, Moses' Way is not merely lessons of management and leadership but lessons of life that will bring us to a new heights of our dreams and to eternity.
This edited collection includes contributions by Follett, Fayol, Mooney, Dennison, Henderson, Whitehead and Mayo. The paper by Henderson, Whitehead and Mayo discusses the findings of the Hawthorne experiments.
Textbook on the evolution of management theory - traces historical aspects, consequences of industrialization for industrial management, the advent of scientific management, spreading of the efficiency gospel, personnel management, human relations, business organization, operational management, etc. Bibliography pp. 563 to 576 and diagrams.
Barnard was prompted by Vilfredo Pareto's seminal four volume work Mind and Society to apply his theories of sociology to management studies. Barnard's study of interaction between people in economic settings was contentious in that he concluded that human behaviour within these settings is largely non-economic and instead approaches ritualistic symbolism.
Monograph describing the 'grid' theory of management - presents a behavioural sciences approach to human relations in managerial style, in management techniques for motivation, in management by objectives and organization development. Bibliography pp. 218 to 230, illustrations and references.
An original and groundbreaking examination of the psychological devastation of war through the lens of Homer’s Iliad in this “compassionate book [that] deserves a place in the lasting literature of the Vietnam War” (The New York Times). In this moving and dazzlingly creative book, Dr. Jonathan Shay examines the psychological devastation of war by comparing the soldiers of Homer’s Iliad with Vietnam veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. A classic of war literature that has as much relevance as ever in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Achilles in Vietnam is a “transcendent literary adventure” (The New York Times) and “clearly one of the most origina...