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Managers - Personality and Performance (Hardcover)
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Managers - Personality and Performance (Hardcover)
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What makes people go into business? What makes some
businessmen--and some businesses--outstandingly successful, while
others, with opportunities just as good, fail? These questions are
often asked, and have often been studied from the point of view of
economics or of organizational theory. This book is one of the
first scientific studies to probe these questions in depth, in
terms both of the individual business manager's character,
personality, and drives, and of the group psychology of his milieu.
Starting with a descriptive survey of an important and homogeneous
European industry, it traces a clear pattern of success and failure
among the firms operating in it. Then, using as a basis the
transcript of more than 600 interviews with executives of the firms
concerned, it seeks the reasons for each firm's position. The
results are startling: in both the successful and the unsuccessful
companies remarkably consistent personality patterns emerge. The
study demonstrates that individuals seek to fulfill themselves in
their daily work. It shows that in the successful companies there
is a basic harmony between the actual job done and its symbolic
value for the individual, while in the less successful companies
there is strain and tension of a particularly disharmonious kind.
The executives' conscious purposes are often at odds with their
unconscious needs. Rogers does not seek to minimize the importance
of objective external factors. But his study of top management
suggests reasons why an environment that spells success for some
firms spells disaster in others. This is a fascinating and
important book, which will be read with profit both by businessmen
and by social scientists.
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