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Staff As Decision-Makers: The Merits Of Decentralized Decision-Making

Marchant, Maurice P.

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Title
Staff As Decision-Makers: The Merits Of Decentralized Decision-Making
Author(s)
Marchant, Maurice P.
Issue Date
1993
Keyword(s)
  • Library administration -- Decision making
  • Leadership in libraries
Abstract
During the 1950s and 1960s, research teams across the country searched for differences that explained why some organizations were highly successful while others were only marginally successful, if at all. Several of them came to similar explanations involving managerial treatment and use of their subordinates. Major researchers were Rensis Likert, Douglas McGregor, Robert R. Blake (with Jane S. Mouton), and Chris Argyris. Even though the results are 30 to 40 years old, they are both relevant and critical to the most recent discussions of managerial style. While they differed in the expression of their theories, each claimed that using the talents and knowledge of subordinates and treating them with respect improved their productivity. One aspect of that superior pattern of behavior was to decentralize decision-making.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
  • Occasional papers. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, no. 198/199
  • Allerton Park Institute (35th : 1993)
ISSN
0276-1769
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/4012
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 1993 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

Owning Collections

1993: Critical Issues in Library Management: Organizing for Leadership and Decision-Making PRIMARY
Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 35, 1993); Edited by Bryce L. Allen and Terry L. Weech.