The article discusses research related to staff utilization and development in 1963. One trend in staffing is the development of strategic business units. The primary mission of a unit is distinguished from a single line or staff function. There is an increasing need for management practices devoted to complex organizations. This is expressed in literature which refers to the ?law of functional growth.? The functions of an organization increase in scope and complexity as the volume of business grows.
The article addresses the issue of faculty participation in university governance and the moral and ethical conflicts that can arise as a result. The author reports on the possibility for the administrative role in educational institutions to become equal to the role of scholar-teacher. A discussion is presented about scholarly tasks that could be expected from an employee in administrative positions. Details related to administrative and faculty responsibilities in educational organizations are presented.
The article presents news briefs related to the Academy of Management and its members. The Mid-West division of the Academy held its annual meeting at Ohio State University in April 1963. Wallace D. Trevillian has been appointed associate dean of the School of Industrial Management and Textile Science at Clemson College. Irvin L. Heckman has been names Dean of the College of Business and Creighton University.
The article focuses on Australia's venture into providing education in administration and management at the university postgraduate level. A discussion is presented about the attitudes of universities in Australia toward the teaching of administration and management and the country's role in the international business community. The author analyzes the amount of interest in the emergence of faculties of commerce and economics at Australian universities. A comparison of Australian and British management education programs is presented.
The article discusses the challenges of teaching the science and theory of management. The author creates an analogy of the management theory jungle and compares the teaching of management science to the training soldiers for jungle warfare. A discussion is presented about the nature of management both as a discipline and as an art. The author presents an overview of contributions made to the field of management from different sciences and speculates on the future of management theory in the United States.
The article focuses on exception reporting as an approach to project evaluation and review technique. The author presents an overview of the principles of exception reporting. A discussion is prese...
It is the central thesis of this paper that the enterprise can usefully be described as a man-directed, dynamic network of processes and facilitating systems, and that a useful model of the administrator's job logically follows from this description. We shall first contrast the concepts of ?process? and ?system? and then integrate these concepts with certain other constructs toward building (a) a model of the enterprise and (b) a model of the administrator's job.
The article discusses the results of a survey on the types of services offered by psychologists in business schools and the advantages of having a knowledge of psychology in the business world. The author presents an overview of types of courses taught by psychologists, educational levels taught by psychologists, and theories they can introduce to the business school curriculum. A discussion is presented about the importance of a well-rounded curriculum and the management of a business school.
The article discusses the use of executive development as an instrument of organizational control. Development in this context refers to the planned influence of individual psychological processes. It is the purpose of this development to gain from employees attitudinal commitment to the philosophy, values, and goals of a business organization. A model for a planned program of influence is presented. The organizational learning facets of the plan include altering influences which affect employee attitudes, introducing employees to new values, and crystallization of new attitudes.
The article discusses selected materials from the psychological and sociological literature which illustrate disagreement in the areas of management and organization. The author describes an investigation of the role of human versus simulated brains in creative leadership. A discussion is presented about the presence of two distinguishable approaches to the human mind in behavioral science literature. An overview of the psychological and sociological aspects of management and organization is presented.