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Executive Behavior and Interaction

Executive Behavior and Interaction Footnotes 1 For a summary of these works see Robert Dubin, Business Behavior Behaviorally Viewed, in Chris Argyris and others, Social Science Approaches to Business Behavior (Homewood, III.: Dorsey‐Irwin, 1962), p 11–20. The classic study was done by Sune Carlson over a decade ago. See his Executive Behavior: A Study of the Work Load and Working Methods of Managing Directors (Stockholm: Stromberg Aktiebolag, 1951). Almost no one, save Tom Burns, the English researcher, has followed up the work on executives pioneered by Carlson. 2 Mason Haire has called attention to this fact by writing recently that in the study of business organizations: “Attention still falls largely on the behavior and motives of hourly paid and clerical workers in the organization. When management is studied at all it is almost exclusively in terms of decision‐making. Surprisingly, there has been, relatively little interest in either motives or behavior of management outside this area … We have virtually no studies of what management actually does” See “General Issues,” in Mason Haire, editor, Modern Organization Theory (New York: Wiley, 1959), p. 15. 3 See Tom Burns , “ The Direction of Activity and Communication in a Departmental Executive Group ,” Human Relations http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Industrial Relations Wiley

Executive Behavior and Interaction

DUBIN, ROBERT; SPRAY, S. LEE
Industrial Relations , Volume 3 (2) – Feb 1, 1964
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Copyright © 1964 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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Footnotes 1 For a summary of these works see Robert Dubin, Business Behavior Behaviorally Viewed, in Chris Argyris and others, Social Science Approaches to Business Behavior (Homewood, III.: Dorsey‐Irwin, 1962), p 11–20. The classic study was done by Sune Carlson over a decade ago. See his Executive Behavior: A Study of the Work Load and Working Methods of Managing Directors (Stockholm: Stromberg Aktiebolag, 1951). Almost no one, save Tom Burns, the English researcher, has followed up the work on executives pioneered by Carlson. 2 Mason Haire has called attention to this fact by writing recently that in the study of business organizations: “Attention still falls largely on the behavior and motives of hourly paid and clerical workers in the organization. When management is studied at all it is almost exclusively in terms of decision‐making. Surprisingly, there has been, relatively little interest in either motives or behavior of management outside this area … We have virtually no studies of what management actually does” See “General Issues,” in Mason Haire, editor, Modern Organization Theory (New York: Wiley, 1959), p. 15. 3 See Tom Burns , “ The Direction of Activity and Communication in a Departmental Executive Group ,” Human Relations

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