The management of business and public organizations
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...It became more apparent that organizations are built around workers and therefore human feelings and attitudes are vital considerations (Buchele, 1977). The human relations theorists held that in addition to finding the best technological methods to im¬ prove production, management must also be concerned with human inter¬ ests. According to these theorists, then, the function of the leader was to strike a balance between the goals of the organization and the needs of the individual within the organization (Stogdill, 1974). In sharp contrast to the production or task orientation of scientific man¬ agement, the human relations movement was primarily concerned with peo¬ ple. According to Hersey and Blanchard (1982), the recognition of these two concepts, production orientation and people orientation, would dom¬ inate the management literature to this day....
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...It became more apparent that organizations are built around workers and therefore human feelings and attitudes are vital considerations (Buchele, 1977)....
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