"A prominent manufacturer once said that although he could see some use for an organization chart for his factory, he had refused to chart the organization above the level of factory superintendent. His argument was that charts tend to make people overly conscious of being superiors or inferiors, tend to destroy team feeling, and give persons occupying a box on the chart too great a feeling of "ownership"?Another top executive once said that if an organization is left uncharted, it can be changed more easily and that the absence of a chart also encourages a competitive drive for higher executive positions on the part of the uncharted middle-management group."
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Harold Koontz
(1909 - Febr. 11, 1984) was an American organizational theorist, Professor of Business Management at the and a consultant for many of America's largest business organizations. He co-authored the book Principles of Management with Cyril J. O'Donnell (1964).
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