ABSTRACT

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1967 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

part I|42 pages

A Conceptual Framework

chapter 1|9 pages

Systems of Activity and their Boundaries

chapter 2|11 pages

Individuals, Groups, and their Boundaries

chapter 3|8 pages

Task Priorities and Constraints

chapter 4|10 pages

Organizational Model-Building

part II|57 pages

Transactions across Enterprise Boundaries

chapter 5|16 pages

The Selling Task and the Representative

chapter 6|14 pages

Organization of the Sales Force

part III|26 pages

Disentanglement of Coincident Task Boundaries

part IV|95 pages

Temporary and Transitional Task Systems

chapter 12|15 pages

The Building of a New Steel Works

chapter 13|11 pages

Organization for Research

chapter 14|15 pages

The Control of Research Institutions

chapter 15|11 pages

Airline Operations: Task and Constraints

chapter 16|9 pages

Boundary Controls in an Airline

chapter 18|11 pages

The Flying System/Ground System Boundary

part V|25 pages

The Elimination of Organizational Boundaries within Enterprises

part VI|21 pages

Task and Sentient Systems and their Boundary Controls

chapter 21|9 pages

Task and Sentient Groups

chapter 22|8 pages

Boundary Controls