Top down : why hierarchies are here to stay and how to manage them more effectively / Harold J. Leavitt.

By: Leavitt, Harold J .

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Boston : Harvard Business School Press, c2005Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xii, 189 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1591394988.Subject(s): Management

| Hierarchies

| Executive ability

| Employee empowerment

| Organizational effectiveness

DDC classification: 658.4

Contents:

Why we don't like hierarchies -- Why hierarchies persist -- Humanizing hierarchies versus systemizing them -- Three changes that shook the hierarchy -- How big hierarchies cope with change -- The manager's authority -- Leadership, authority, and the hierarchy -- Three lessons for manager/leaders -- Hierarchies, managers and morality.

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