ABOUT THE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK
Writers of books on organization tend to fall into one of two camps. Either they are formalists, who seek to bring better order to what they see as chaotic organizations, or they are informalists, who believe that organizations are too orderly and need more soul. In fact, the two groups are distinct enough in their views, and have been so for a long enough time, that they have had a variety of names attached to them. There is the “scientific management” school versus the “human relations” school; those who follow McGregor’s Theory X and those who espouse Theory Y.2 There have been many books written on both aspects of organization.
What has been missing, in our opinion, is a book that focuses on ...
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