GENERAL MANAGEMENT, AN OUTLINE CODE

Abstract

Very, very slowly managers are beginning to realise the infinite complexity of their jobs and with this realisation has come a loss of self‐confidence. So writes Stephen Aris, reviewing a new book, The Reality of Management, by Rosemary Stewart (Heinemann, 25s.) in The Manager for September. The traditional view of managers, says Mr. Aris, was that they were masters of their own destiny and that work‐people, being naturally lazy, had to be bribed or prodded to give of their best. Today, says Mr. Aris, one third of the working population are employed in large scale organisations and it is becoming quite obvious that old style empirical intuitive leadership just will not do; companies are too large and too complex for any one man to understand and control properly.

Citation

Smith, V. (1963), "GENERAL MANAGEMENT, AN OUTLINE CODE", Work Study, Vol. 12 No. 11, pp. 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb060124