rates of unemployment, and little or no inflation. Under the national autarchy scenario, current trends would be reversed and national governments would again become dominant. This would result in less international cooperation and high inflation (Bruner, et al., 1998, pp. 21-24).
Chapter Three concerns the management of people within a company. The authors begin the chapter by positing a situation in which a new manager is faced with a problem employee. In order to come up with a solution to this problem, the manager must employ four levels of analysis. First, she must understand the employee in question and his underlying motivations. Second, she must understand the set of relationships surrounding herself and the employee, especially the authority relationship. Third, she must understand small-group dynamics, what makes people work together to accomplish definite tasks. Fourth, she must understand the organization as a whole: its culture, processes, and ways of doing things that affect he
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