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TL;DR: The contemporary manager is coming to see the world as one in which variability, uncertainty, and probabilism are the predominant dimensions as mentioned in this paper, and the applicability of mechanistic concepts to the management of human resources is at best negligible.
Abstract: AS THIS DECADE COMMENCES it is already quite apparent that both public and private enterprise will have to deal with the challenges of survival, consolidation, and growth in ways that differ markedly from those that prevailed as recently as ten years ago.2 The ranks of key executives who seek to manage an organization sheerly as a technical system become thinner with each passing year. The once comfortable and comforting image of the world as mechanism, the image of the world as operating in terms of discoverable and controllable cause-effect relationships, is clearly outmoded and in the process of being replaced. The contemporary manager is coming to see the world as one in which variability, uncertainty, and probabilism are the predominant dimensions.3 Though mechanistic concepts continue to have utility, these are no longer seen as central and totally explanatory: further, the applicability of these concepts to the management of human resources is at best negligible.
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