Research on Management Practices
Likert and his associates carried out extensive research on management practices in American business and government. The comprehensive studies conducted by a team of about 40 researchers over a period of twenty-five years at a cost of $15 millions compare favorably with the famous Hawthorne studies. They were conducted in a wide variety o situations like industrial and commercial firms, railways, hospitals, schools and voluntary organisations and covered unskilled workers in factories to top scientists in research laboratories. His majors works include New Patterns of Management;The Human Organisation; and New Ways of Managing conflict. His books were extremely popular in Japan and their impact can be seen across modern Japanese organisations.