This personal and informal work portrays Drucker as a leader and thinker of infinite curiosity, imaginative, sympathetic, and enormously interested in people, ideas, and the forces behind them.

    Great vintage book!

    The four paradigms - Functionalist, Interpretive, Radical Humanist and Radical Structuralist - derive from quite distinct intellectual traditions, and present four mutually exclusive views of the social work. Each stands in its own right, and generates its own distinctive approach to the analysis of social life. The authors provide extensive reviews of the four paradigms, tracing the evolution and inter-relationships between the various sociological schools of thought within each. They then proceed to relate theories of organisation to this wider background. This book covers a great range of intellectual territory. It makes a number of important contributions to our understanding of sociology and organisational analysis, and will prove an invaluable guide to theorists, researchers and students in a variety of social science disciplines. It stands as a discourse in social theory, drawing upon the general area of organisation studies - industrial sociology, organisation theory, organisational psychology, and industrial relations - as a means of illustrating more general sociological themes. In addition to reviewing and evaluating existing work, it provides a framework for appraising future developments in the area of organisational analysis, and suggests the form which some of these developments are likely to take.

    Focusing on the role of managers within an organization, the volume emphasizes the development of computer-based Information Systems to support an organization's objectives and strategic plans. Focusing on the Systems Concepts, the Systems Approach is implemented throughout the text. The volume covers essential concepts such as using information technology to engage in electronic commerce, and information resources such as database management systems, information security, ethical implications of information technology and decision support systems with projects to challenge users at all levels of competence. For those involved in Management Information Systems.

    Placing himself (modestly, of course) with Archimedes, Pythagoras and Newton, he continues his attack on the management parade with a series of new laws, concluding with his dynamic Law of the Vacuum - "action expands to fill the void created by human failure".

    It has a focus upon the behaviour of complex organizations in turbulent environments and upon what determines success. The book is a ground-breaking approach to modelling strategic capability and strategic choice that has influenced an entire generation of managers and strategists. It remains a key work on strategy.

    Dayton shows that if readers follow his suggestions, tensions about money can disappear.

    Key retail management concepts are reinforced with current, real-world examples that bridge the gap between theory and practice.

    It uses questionnaires, role plays, simulations, games and readings to reinforce key concepts.

    Mitchell has joined with new co-author Larson to prepare a comprehensive up-to-date integration of research and applications in organizational behavior. The text emphasizes a research-oriented approach to understanding the behavior of people in organizational settings and the authors explore issues of organizational behavior seldom discussed in other texts e. g.,the effect of internal versus external factors on human behavior; regulating the group process to increase the effectiveness of group decision making; dealing with marginal employees from a managerial perspective. This edition addresses areas of study that are still incomplete or yet unexplored and includes a new chapter on job stress. Additionally,it includes a wealth of actual research examples to more fully aid students in understanding the behavior of people in organizations.