A Management Odyssey
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Book Description
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.
About the Author
J.M. Haas is Professor of History at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.
A Management Odyssey,J. M. Haas,University Press of America,0819194611,Facilities,Great Britain,Great Britain.,History,History - General History,History: World,Management,Military Science,Naval Organization And Administration,Navy-yards and naval stations,Royal Navy,World - General,20th century,History / World,Management & management techniques,Maritime history,Shipping industries,United Kingdom, Great Britain,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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