Title: New Patterns of Management by Rensis Likert
Product review: With all the new and interesting management theory going around today, from "Emotional Intelligence" to "Following the Gallup Path", students of management would be well advised to read Likert's original contribution to what makes for effective management. Much of what we are reading today, was researched and presented back in 1961 with Likert's findings. Easy to read and well documented, the is a classic that is often overlooked for the groundbreaking work it represents. Likert presents a thorough reivew of the research done at that time and also clearly presents and explains his notion of "the development of a better system of managing the human resources of an organization". His research methods, his findings, and his notions of effective management have held up over time and are clearly visable in the work being done today in the field. I would recommend this as required reading for any student of management.
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