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The Life and Behavior of Living Organisms: A General Theory

Politics & Social Sciences

Jaques, Elliott

Philosophy

Praeger

Jaques presents a totally new general theoretical foundation for understanding the individual and social behavior of all living organisms. In contrast to existing theories of behavior which are static, Jaques has succeeded in breaking through to a truly dynamic orientation. This breakthrough, resulted from his fundamental research into work organizations that led to the realization that the difference between inanimate processes and all living behavior, is that all living behavior is composed of intentional goal-directed work.
This continuous work entails the use of judgment in choosing goals and in making the decisions necessary to get to these goals. This work process is the same in all living organisms, including humans. It is an ineffable process of the total organism, inaccessible to direct observation and experience. Intentionality is the dynamic of behavior. This discovery has led over the past 50 years to extensive discoveries--objective measures of work complexity, and of the level of complexity (capability) of individuals in all species; how human language differs from communication in other species; the need to distinguish between horizontal evolutionary mutations within a given level of capability, and vertical evolution to species with higher levels of complexity; the nature of freedom within mutual-trust inducing constraints. Set forth to radically change the nature of all behavioral and social sciences in the new millenium, Jaques' analysis is essential reading for all scholars, students, and researchers as well as the general public involved with the behavior of living organisms.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.  This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1951 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

The Changing Culture of a Factory (International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library. Inter)

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

A General Theory of Bureaucracy

Heinemann

Measurement of responsibility: a study of work,: Payment and individual capacity (Glacier project series)

Heinemann Educational

"... Properly organized, bureaucracy is not inevitably monolithic and stultifying, but can make a prime contribution to pluralismand open society....'- from the jacket.

Management & Leadership

Heinemann/Halsted Press

Measurement of Responsibility presents the most fundamental approach to the stresses that create industrial unrest-the absence of any objective method of assessing the responsibility carried by individuals.

Measurement of Responsibility: A Study of Work, Payment, and Individual Capacity

John Wiley&Sons

Based on Elliott Jaques’ latest research, this is a thorough revision of a book that has established itself as a classic in its field. Jaques has written a practical high-level, how-to book, that applies to all kinds of working organizations - industrial, commercial, service and public. He sets out a totally new way of doing business. Step by step, he builds up the concepts, and then introduces the working procedures to enable CEOs and senior executives, managers, and HR specialists, to develop requisite organization for themselves - in other words, organization which enhances creativity, productive effectiveness, human satisfaction and excellent morale. Requisite Organization challenges all of our current methods and assumptions in the field of organization, leadership and management, and presents a unified total management system built upon a rigorous theoretical base, Stratified Systems Theory. Any enterprise can gain a competitive edge in the short-term by introducing new products and services. In the long-term, however, an adaptive and successful enterprise calls for soundly structured organization with effective staffing and managerial leadership at every level - a requisite organization.

Requisite Organization

Strong managerial leadership is a major factor in competitiveness and effectiveness in business. Companies must establish a managerial organization structure that puts competent managerial leaders into suitable roles. The aim of this practical text is to provide a foundation for leadership at a down-to-earth and understandable level.

Executive Leadership: A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity

Lessem, Ronnie

Clement, Stephen D.

Wiley/Blackwell

A General Theory Of Bureaucracy

Education & Reference

Gregg Revivals

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The Life and Behavior of Living Organisms: A General Theory

The Life and Behavior of Living Organisms: A General Theory

The Changing Culture of a Factory (International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library. Inter)

A General Theory of Bureaucracy

Measurement of responsibility: a study of work,: Payment and individual capacity (Glacier project series)

A General Theory of Bureaucracy

Measurement of Responsibility: A Study of Work, Payment, and Individual Capacity

Requisite Organization

Executive Leadership: A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity

A General Theory Of Bureaucracy