Includes bibliographical references and index.

Management and the manager -- The managerial system -- Managerial decision making -- Electronic data processing and decision making -- Organizing the system -- Nuances of the organized system -- Product research and development -- Product development principles -- Facility design and location -- Facility layout and environment -- Automation, computerization, and machines -- Materials logistics -- Maintenance -- Equipment purchasing and replacement policy -- Interpersonal relations -- Management of personnel -- Union-management relations -- Employee safety and health -- Work design: improving work methods -- Work simplification -- Work measurement -- Wage administration -- Wage payment plans -- Securing appropriate materials -- Controlling quality through inspection -- Controlling quality through statistical methods -- Controlling materials inventories -- Production control -- Project control -- Overall control.

This book, covering the various facets of a firm from an overall, or systems, point of view, analyzes the total job of managing an enterprise. Its purpose is to treat in a concise and meaningful way the principles and procedures used by. management in operating a business undertaking.