Systems of Organization

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1967 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> I: A Conceptual Framework; 1: Systems of Activity and their Boundaries; 2: Individuals, Groups, and their Boundaries; 3: Task Priorities and Constraints; 4: Organizational Model-Building; II: Transactions across Enterprise Boundaries; 5: The Selling Task and the Representative; 6: Organization of the Sales Force; 7: The Dry-Cleaning Receiving Office and the Customer; 8: Effects of Technical Change in Dry Cleaning; III: Disentanglement of Coincident Task Boundaries; 9: The Family Business in Contemporary Society; 10: Constraints on Growth and Change in the Family Business; IV: Temporary and Transitional Task Systems; 11: Organizational Boundaries in the Building of a New Works; 12: The Building of a New Steel Works; 13: Organization for Research; 14: The Control of Research Institutions; 15: Airline Operations: Task and Constraints; 16: Boundary Controls in an Airline; 17: Task and Sentient Groups in the Flying System; 18: The Flying System/Ground System Boundary; V: The Elimination of Organizational Boundaries within Enterprises; 19: The Background to the Introduction of Automation; 20: The Organizational Implications of Computer Systems; VI: Task and Sentient Systems and their Boundary Controls; 21: Task and Sentient Groups; 22: Boundary Controls