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The shape of automation for men and management
- Title
- The shape of automation for men and management, by Herbert A. Simon.
- Author
- Simon, Herbert A. (Herbert Alexander), 1916-2001.
- Publication
- New York, Harper & Row [1965]
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Details
- Description
- xv, 111 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Long term economic implications of automation. Prospects for office and factory automation. Impact of computers on management decision making. Techniques for programmed decision making, heuristic problem solving. Business organization likely to be created by new methods of decision making.
- Subject
- Industrial management
- Automation > Economic aspects
- Decision making
- Management information systems
- Decision Making, Computer-Assisted
- Management Information Systems
- Decision Making
- decision making
- Management information systems
- Automation > Economic aspects
- Decision making
- Industrial management
- Management
- Automatisering
- Besluitvorming
- long term
- economic implication
- automation
- computer
- management
- business organization
- Human-machine systems
- Business > Data processing
- Gestion d'entreprise
- Automatisation > Aspect économique
- long terme
- conséquences économiques
- automatisation
- ordinateur
- gestion
- prise de décision
- organisation de l'entreprise
- largo plazo
- consecuencias económicas
- automatización
- computadora
- administración
- toma de decisiones
- organización de la empresa
- Note
- Edition of 1960 and rev. ed. (1977) published under title: The new science of management decision.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical references included in footnotes.
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction: computers and automation -- I. the long-range economic effects of automation -- II. Will the corporation be managed by machines? -- III. The new science of management decision -- The executive as decision maker -- Traditional decision-making methods -- New techniques for programmed decision making -- Heuristic problem solving -- Organizational design: man-machine systems for decision-making.
- LCCN
- 65021009
- OCLC
- ocm00175200
- 175200
- SCSB-2025079
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library