| dc.description.abstract | The performance of eight commonly utilized styles of top
management are evaluated in various environmental situations.
The eight styles are: entrepreneurial, professional
management, professional bureaucratic, professional entrepreneurial,
conservative traditional, colleaguial, bureaucratic,
and middle-of-the-road. Utilizing data from the
author's study of over a hundred Canadian corporations,
the paper deals with four organizational decision situations:
1) What top management style to choose if
information about the environment is not available, 2) what
environment to get into if the style of top management is
not yet decided upon, 3) what environment to pick if the
top management style is decided upon, and 4) what top
management style to pick if the environment is decided
upon. The implications of the results for Indian management
are described. The various paths by which an
organization can move from an undesirable style to a
desirable style are indicated, and some suggestions are
made on the way the change strategy could be implemented. | |
