Research Catalog

Title

Managerial psychology; an introduction to individuals, pairs, and groups in organizations [by] Harold J. Leavitt.

Author

Leavitt, Harold J.

Publication

Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1972]

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Details

Description

viii, 366 pages illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Management development guide on the psychological aspects of human relations and behaviour, designed to promote better relations between managers and employees - examines the effects of frustration and conflict on behaviour, decision making, communication, influence, wage incentives, intergroup relations, interest group pressure, competition among groups, organizational structure, etc. Diagrams and references.

Subject

• Psychology, Industrial
• Organization
• Industrial management
• Organization and Administration
• Psychology, Industrial
• Organization
• Industrial management
• Führungspsychologie
• Management
• Arbeids- en organisatiepsychologie
• psychological aspect
• human relations
• behaviour
• manager
• employee
• conflict
• decision making
• communication
• wage incentive
• intergroup relations
• interest group
• Organizational behavior
• Executives > Psychology
• Management > Psychological aspects
• Psychologie du travail
• Gestion
• Chefs d'entreprise > Guides, manuels, etc
• aspect psychologique
• relations humaines
• comportement
• cadre
• salarié
• conflit
• prise de décision
• prime de salaire
• relations intergroupes
• groupe d'intérêt
• aspecto psicológico
• relaciones humanas
• comportamiento
• gerente
• empleado
• conflicto
• toma de decisiones
• comunicación
• incentivo en metálico
• relaciones entre los grupos
• grupo de intereses

Genre/Form

• management development guide.
• reference.
• guide de formation des cadres.
• référence bibliographique.
• guía de desarrollo gerencial.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 350-360.

Contents

pt. 1. People one at time: The units of management -- People are alike: Some basic ideas -- People are different: The growth of individuality -- Perception: From the inside looking out -- Frustration: The roadblock -- Psychological conflict: Roadblocks on the inside -- Learning, thinking, problem-solving: Some reasoning parts of people -- Thinking and Problem-solving II: My style and yours -- Attitudes and values: motherhood, Old Glory, and off the pigs -- The assessment of people: One application of personality theory -- pt. 2. Relationships: The forest and the trees -- Communication: Getting information from A into B -- Influencing behavior: Some dimensions of the problem -- Authority: Ome model for influence -- Pressure and coercion: A second model for influence -- Collaborative models: influence without power -- Money incentives: One effort to influence -- pt. 3. People in threes to twenties: Efficiency and influence in groups -- Communication networks in groups: Designs for getting the word around -- The content of communication in groups: Getting valid words around -- Operating problems of groups: Getting words around efficiently -- Independence and conformity: The problem of truth in the face of pressure -- Conflict and competition among groups: My team among groups: My team can beat your team -- Developing managers: Applied ideas about influence, learning, and groups -- pt. 4. People in hundreds and thousands: Problems of organizational design -- The volatile organization: Everything triggers everything else -- Structure, people, and technology: Some key ideas and where they came from -- Organizational decision-making: Goals. problems, tasks -- Organizations ans individuals: The people part of the system -- Organizational structure: The fall guy -- Technology and organization: Brave new organizational world -- Organizations and their environments: From back then to out there.

ISBN

• 0226469824
• 9780226469829
• 0226469832
• 9780226469836

LCCN

73184905

OCLC

• ocm00328654
• 328654
• SCSB-2094137

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library