... must design and maintain the stability of the organisation's operations and through the process of strategy formulation, ensure that the organisation adapt in a controlled way to its changing environment. (Lorsch et al 1978) A manager's work can be described in terms of roles or patterns of behaviour. These roles cannot be separated as they are tightly linked together in the total "managerial job ... manager's informational roles include those of information monitor, disseminator and spokesperson, while his or her decisional roles of entrepreneur, disturbance handler, resource allocator...

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... staff in such a way that these changes could be met. Even a company such as Ford, long the most stubborn defender of managerial rights, introduced its Employee Involvement plan. For Kochan et al (1985) this represents the making of a new system of industrial relations, embracing the strategic level of corporate decision making as well as the system of rules at shop floor level ... too optimistic and suggests that the end of work could signal the beginning of a great social transformation, a rebirth in the human spirit. (Jeremy Rifkin 1995, "The Third Industrial Revolution", Rosenbrock e...

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