p.156 The word 'organization' derives from an ancient Indo-European root that also
spawned the words 'organ' and 'work'.
p.169 Elbourne (1934) listed many principles that should
guide organizations or managers; particularly interesting are his principles for treating organizational
arrangements as experiments. Gaus (1936: 90) reviewed various organizational principles and concluded limply that
organizing should be 'a relating of individuals so that their efforts may be more effective'.
p.170 Barnard introduced the then novel ideas that decision-making is an important
activity performed by executives and that organizations influence executives' decisions.
p.171-172 Simon... (1950: 4) predicted, 'we are in time going to have theory in
management - theory of the kind that predicts reality, and not the kind that is contrasted with practice'. [JLJ - yeah...
we apparently are still waiting]
p.176 Organization theory has developed considerable complexity, so much complexity
that doctoral students sometimes complain that it makes no sense to them.
