Articles by Ishwar Dayal

Reform by Abstract Principle Ishwar Dayal Administrative Reforms for Decentralised Development; A P Saxena ment Administration Centre; Kuala Lumpur 1980.

Wider Value of Behavioural Analysis Ishwar Dayal Sovereigns Without Crowns : A Behavioural Analysis of the Indian Electoral Process by V M Sirsikar; Popular Prakashan, Bombay, 1973; pp viii + 414; Rs 55.

Ishwar Dayal Management Education and Training in India, Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Co-operative Management, Poona; Rs 20.
THIS is a collection of papers with a report on the proceedings of a conference on management education and training organised by the Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Co-opera- tive Management, Poona, from January 22 to 24, 1969. The invitees included educationists and executives from industry. The conference was held in live sessions

Balance-Sheet A Comment Ishwar Dayal Nitish R De ("Organisational Development; An Interim Balance-Sheet", Review of Management, May 29, 1971) has rightly pointed out that the target of change in OD is the total organisation or a discrete segment of it rather than a chosen activity such as cost control, O and M, management develop- ment, etc. The development of an organisation is seen as a total effort; change in the segments does not always ensure change in the whole. The segments may have their own. specific features hut the whole is not a sum-total of the parts.

Ishwar Dayal Management Development and Management by Objectives by Andrew M Brown; Somaiya Publications,
FOR the management of complex organisations, sophistication in diagnosis, analysis, and decision-making has become necessary. This is because of three major features of modern industry, viz, size, dependence on the appropriate mix of specialist and generalist knowledge and skills, and balancing of changing forces. The sources of data for decision-making, as well as the processes of acceptance of decisions by the managerial hierarchy, are varied.