The Human Cost of a Management Failure: Organizational Downsizing at General Hospital

by Seth Allcorn, Michael A. Diamond, Howell S. Baum

This book presents a unique, in-depth examination of the effects that the popular approaches to management organizational change--downsizing, restructuring, and reengineering--had on a major American hospital. The Human Cost of a Management Failure shows what can happen when management insists on accomplishing its ends strictly by the numbers. The authors ask why top management so often, and with seemingly such a cavalier attitude, selects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567200028
• ISBN13: 9781567200027
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"