Making Sense of Management Theory.

In their zeal to offer a clear, usable theory of management, scholars and practitioners alike have succeeded for the most part only in muddying the waters still further. Contentiousness, faddism, and self-serving defense of pet theories have led intelligent men into semantic difficulties which are compounded by a mutual reluctance to understand the other fellow's view. The result? A jungle of confusion and conflict through which the bewildered businessman must cut his way. Here, Harold Koontz, Professor of Business Philosophy, University of California (Los Angeles), and a distinguished authority on management, conquers confusion by deft division. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]