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The Functions of the Executive: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition Paperback – Deluxe Edition, January 1, 1971

by Chester I. Barnard (Author), Kenneth Richmond Andrews (Introduction)
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Most of Chester Barnard’s career was spent in executive practice. A Mount Hermon and Harvard education, cut off short of the bachelor’s degree, was followed by nearly forty years in the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. His career began in the Statistical Department, took him to technical expertness in the economics of rates and administrative experience in the management of commercial operations, and culminated in the presidency of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. He was not directly involved in the Western Electric experiments conducted chiefly at the Hawthorne plant in Cicero, but his association with Elton Mayo and the latter’s colleagues at the Harvard Business School had an important bearing on his most original ideas.

Barnard’s executive experience at AT&T was paralleled and followed by a career in public service unusual in his own time and hardly routine today. He was at various times president of the United Services Organization (the USO of World War II), head of the General Education Board and later president of the Rockefeller Foundation (after Raymond Fosdick and before Dean Rusk), chairman of the National Science Foundation, an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, a consultant to the American representative in the United Nations Atomic Energy Committee, to name only some of his public interests. He was a director of a number of companies, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a lover of music and a founder of the Bach Society of New Jersey.

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  6. ISBN-10
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“From the ranks of the country’s leading executives comes a major contribution to the understanding of our society… The author presents an analysis of the nature of business organizations and the functions of executives in them. He has been able to stand apart from the minutiae of his everyday experiences and to view them as part of the orderly functioning of the organization as a whole… The work has important implications, for it points the way to the development of more effective co-operative systems and at the same time to the development and communication of the executive techniques essential to such systems.”―The American Journal of Sociology

“One of the contemporary classics on administration. It has contributed a great deal to organization theory. Often quoted, it is a basic work by a successful executive.”―Business Management

“Mr. Barnard has made a masterly contribution in his realistic treatment of such topics as informal organization, incentives, and the moral aspects of leadership.”―Harvard Business Review

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Now reprinted for the eighteenth time, 'The Functions of the Executive' has steadily increased in influence and circulation since its first appearance.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press; 30th ed. edition (January 1, 1971)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 334 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674328035
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674328037
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Stanley Heard
5.0 out of 5 stars Difficult to read but worth the effort
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2014
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This is a well thought out manual for executive development. Barnard was the Jack Welch of the 1920's and 30's. His insight into what it takes to manage a large organization was light years ahead of his time.

What I like about it is that it forces you to think, defend and reject ideas that you may have accepted because someone else said they were true. I disagreed with some of Barnard's ideas but on the whole found this to be worth the effort to decipher his thoughts.
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William
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
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Summary: an executive isn't the matter, he's the form. It doesn't matter if it's marketing, banking, a hockey team, etc. The danger is of course that the executive becomes so abstracted from the "heart" of the company that it's all about numbers, figures, and "expansion," rather than people.
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PJ
3.0 out of 5 stars Great book, but a little worn out
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The book is great, although some people would have trouble reading because of the wording. I bought it used and the conditions were a little worse than I expected.
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5.0 out of 5 stars School Book
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I purchased this for a class in the PhD program at George Washington University. It was an interesting read and I still have it in my library.
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Lisa SJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic and timeless
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Classic and timeless - all still relevant today. I would recommend this to anyone with Executive aspirations or who is already a CEO.
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1.0 out of 5 stars TERRIBLE
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The book is great BUT it came ripped and right as i opened the book all the pages broke out. I kid you not this is the worst book i have received. After you open the book twice it will split in half and the binding will break off
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EdFred
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the classics on management theory.
Reviewed in Australia on September 5, 2018
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This book should be read by all executives and applied to their firm and to themselves. It disects the reasons (and satisfactions) for people to keep working and the interactions that take place in the workforce.
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V Mavrikakis
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, low price
Reviewed in Germany on April 1, 2016
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The seller is accurate. The book arrived on time and it was exactly as described.
I would recomend it to students and academics of the field of organisational studies
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アマゾン三郎
5.0 out of 5 stars 企業経営組織の構成御要素、構造を客観的な観点から整理、説明した名著
Reviewed in Japan on October 20, 2011
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この著作が今なを生命をもつと考えるのは、以下の理由からです

１ 本書の提示する内容は、今日の日本や欧米各国も含め着実に成果を上げている企業、例えば　FORTUNE GLOBAL 500　に登場する企業の経営構造、組織などにも適用し　　　うる

２　それは本著が、企業経営の構成要素の定義、経営組織の設計・構築、その運用に関する留意点、その中でのトップマジメントが果たすべき機能を、ほとんど工学的
　　ともいえる視点から、淡々と記述提示しているからである

３　そのため特定の経済・経営思想や個別経営者の独自性の議論を離れて、今なを生命を有するわけであろう

本書を、企業の若いマネージャ、社歴10年前後の方に是非お勧めしたい
　　 　

　
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