Behavior and Organization

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Excerpt from Behavior and Organization: O and M and the Small GroupThe work labeled mathematical covers a number of esoteri cally-named approaches to the phenomena of organization. Operations research, linear programing, queuing theory - ar best curiosities a few short years ago - have amply demon strated their usefulness in coping with a wide variety of manage ment problems. These and similar mathematical approaches, it is safe to say, will revolutionize the way in which organization phenomena will be Observed and handled. Consider only one Sign of the times. The Ford Foundation is sponsoring a series of Mathematics Institutes - in one of which the author partici pated during the summer of 1961 - for teachers in schools of business. The cost of such Institutes is already in Six figures. All this to encourage the mathematical sophistication required Of students Of administration by recent advances, the pace of development having been so rapid that most graduate programs have not been able to do the job even for recent graduates.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.