Accession Number : ADA044899

Title :   Management Strategies in Fixed-Structure Models of Complex Organizations.

Descriptive Note : Technical rept.,

Corporate Author : STANFORD UNIV CALIF DEPT OF STATISTICS

Personal Author(s) : Walker,Crayton C. ; Gelfand,Alan E.

Report Date : 14 MAR 1977

Pagination or Media Count : 32

Abstract : The organizational analogues corresponding to a binary switching net models provide useful insight into the behavior of complex organizational control systems. Imposition of certain types of structure on the responses of elements in a system to their inputs enables control of the overall behavior of such nets to an extent that makes them plausible as real world models. Two such structural concepts are examined, internal homogeneity and forcibility, with respect to their influence on the behavior of individual elements and of the system as a whole. These two concepts are interpreted as managerial strategies, the former being management by exception and the latter being management by priority. (Author)

Descriptors :   *CONTROL SYSTEMS, *NETWORK ANALYSIS(MANAGEMENT), MATHEMATICAL MODELS, INPUT OUTPUT PROCESSING, SAMPLING, SWITCHING, ORGANIZATION THEORY, MAPPING(TRANSFORMATIONS), CYBERNETICS.

Subject Categories : ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
      OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Distribution Statement : APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE

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