Staff management and staff participation

Abstract

There is a traditional tendency to think of managers and the managed as two quite separate classes of individual and I should like to make it clear therefore that when I refer to ways in which a manager can improve his effectiveness I am talking about anyone of you who, at a particular moment in time, is achieving his objectives through the agency of at least one other person. I would suggest that by this definition we are all managers, for even those few who in their jobs do not work through a subordinate must, in order to approach their objectives most effectively, manage either their peers or their seniors.

Citation

Dutton, B.G. (1973), "Staff management and staff participation", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 25 No. 3, pp. 111-125. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb050398