At first, a small-business owner typically juggles everything. If all goes well, the company grows, finally demanding organization. Somehow all its parts must be arranged to work as a unified whole -- ...

Journal of Managerial Issues, Vol. 32, No. 1, 30th Anniversary Issue (Spring 2020), pp. 8-25 (18 pages) The current study examines the validity of a multidimensional Person-Environment (PE) fit model ...

Rational organization theory is the idea that an organization, such as a business, is a tool for achieving a definable goal or set of goals. A rational organization uses a formal structure to define ...

Henry Mintzberg is a Canadian management theorist who focused on what managers actually do at work. He described 10 everyday roles that managers play, grouped into three types: working with people ...

Sixty years ago, social psychologist Douglas McGregor developed two different theories — Theory X and Theory Y — about how managers perceive employees. Theory X managers are authoritarian. They ...