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Introduction Published studies of the activities of the manager* assume that his day consists of a sequence of âepisodesâ each having a known duration and being capable of classification in a number of different ways. One episode ends and another begins whenever the classification - by any of the ways changes. Numbers of episodes, or the total time of the episodes classified in the same way, can be compared with the same measures of other classifications. Importance is then assumed to be proportional to these measures, and if this assumption is true, the data provides a profile of a particular managerâs job which can be compared with expectations, or with the profile of another managerâs job. The first part of this paper will be concerned with a critique of this âaggregated episode characteristicâ approach. The second part will discuss some pilot studies in which episodes are related to âproblemsâ or âissuesâ prior to their analysis. The advantages of this extra step appear to be considerable from every point of view. Se(f-recording Acctiruy None of the published work and none of the 30 or so self-recorders or observers that I have known have ever rejected the first assumption -
Journal of Management Studies – Wiley
Published: Oct 1, 1967
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