ESSENTIALS OF MANAGEMENT

• Main Author: Massie, Joseph L (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Prentice-Hall 1979
• Edition: third edition
• Series: Prentice-Hall essentials of management series
• Subjects: Industrial management; Management
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• Physical Description: x, 262 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0132863510

This book summanzes the essential elements of managemerit. Its primary am is to provide the reader with a synthesis of the traditional and newer quantita tive and behavioral approaches to the subject of management by focusing attention on basic concepts and techniques of analysis. It proposes a frame- work for integrating the contributions of the various disciplines interested in the study of management: yet, it encourages a critical attitude toward all administrative thought, with the hope that the reader will reach a synthesis of his own. The author adopts the view that management must be based on interdisciplinary study Important advances have recently been made in economics, accounting, sociology, social psychology, statistics, and mathe- matics in areas directly related to management. These areas have been em- phasized in this book and the traditional functional framework has been condensed