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A Management Odyssey
J. M. Haas
其他書名
The Royal Dockyards, 1714-1914
出版University Press of America, 1994
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Military / NavalHistory / WorldTechnology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN08191946119780819194619
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GGIIJbXqLucC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Royal Dockyards were Britain's oldest state enterprise and biggest and most complex industrial unit. This book shows how the Admiralty over two centuries struggled to master the intractable problems of organization and management which the dockyards presented. Haas maintains that the dockyards portrayed an image of being inefficient, high-cost producers. These problems were chiefly extreme centralization but, paradoxically, weak control, inadequate coordination of departments, and accounting procedures, unreliable information about production, costs and material, an insufficiently educated and professionalized constructive corps, and an underpaid and slack workforce.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Eighteenth Century: Running in Place; Tinkering with the System, 1793-1815; Lightening Ship, 1815-1834; Winds of Change, 1834-1854; Under Seige, 1854-1868; Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1868-1885; The Watershed, 1885-1900; A New Century and New Ideas, 1900-1914; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.