Hello MG-ED-Dvers,
Well ask so many people a question and you get so many different
answers. Thank you to everyone who took the time to answer the query.
Of the 13 replies, only one book was mentioned twice, Frederick Taylor's
book, Scientific Management.
Other than that, there was a diverse group of excellent books
recommended. Here is the list (it's about a page long document, I
apologize for its size).
Management and the Worker, F.J. Roethlisberger and Dickson
Yertle the Turtle, Dr. Seuss
Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan
The Function of the Executive, Chester Barnard
Principles of Scientific Management, F.W. Taylor
The Prince by Machiavelli
Organizations in Action by J.D. Thompson (1967)
The Social Psychology of Organizing by Karl Weick (II ed - 1979)
Managing the Resource Allocation Process by Joseph Bower
Strategy and Structure by Alfred Chandler
Corporate Strategy by Igor Ansoff
Scientific Management, Frederick Winslow Taylor
Papers on the Science of Administration, edited by Luther Gulick and L.
Urwick
Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett,
edited by Henry Metcalf and L. Urwick
The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization, Elton Mayo.
The Functions of the Executive, Chester Barnard
The Modern Corporation and Private Property, Adolph Berle and Gardner
Means
The Practice of Management, Peter F. Drucker
Leadership in Administration, Philip Selznick
Management, Peter F. Drucker
Strategy and Structure, Alfred Chandler
The Nature of Managerial Work, Henry Mintzberg
In Search of Excellence, Peters & Waterman
March and Simon, Organizations
Simon, Administrative Behavior
Thompson, Organizations in Action
Likert, New Patterns of Management
Bernard, The Functions of the Executive
March and Simon (1958) "Organizations"
Thompson (1967) "Organizations in action"
Crozier and Friedberg (1977) "The Social actor and the system" (my
translation)
Burns T./Stalker, G.M. (1961): The Management of Innovation. Tavistock
Publications, London
Perrow, C. (1986): Complex Organizations. A critical Essay, New York:
Random House
Daniel Katz & Robert L. Kahn: The Social Psychology of Organizations,
2nd ed.
Chris Argyris: Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating
organizational learning.
Peter M. Blau: Exchange & Power in social life
Edgar H. Schein: Process Consultation Vol.II: Lessons for Managers and
Consultants
Karl E. Weick: Sensemaking in Organizations
George S. Odiorne , Management and the Activity Trap
The Balancing Act, Patterson, Grenney, McMillan & Switzler
Peters, A Passion for Excellence
Senge, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and tools for building
a learning organization
Block, The Empowered Manager
Zalenik, The Managerial Mystique
Drucker, The New Realities
Anything by Bennis; - Productive Workplaces by Weisbord.
Working the Shadow Side by Gerald Egan
Don Noer's two books - Healing the Wounds and Breaking Free
Out of the Crisis, W. E. Deming, MIT Press, 1986
Drucker's "The Effective Execuctive"
The Human Side of Enterprise, by Douglas MacGregor
Future Edge, by Joel Arthur Barker
Essential to add Henri Fayol, Industrial and General Administration,
IMI, Geneva, 1925
Herbert Simon, Administrative Behaviour, Macmillan NY 1957
James Yhompsn, Organizations in Action, McGraw-Hill, NY 1967
Special thanks to Andre Everett who made an excellent suggestion of
looking at well known writers vs. looking at particular books.
Best,
Russ Williams