Relationships Between Organization Size and Efficiency

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 1960 English Publisher:Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)Journal:Management Science, volume 7, pages 80-84 (issn: 0025-1909, eissn: 1526-5501,

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Authors: F. P. Adler;

doi: 10.1287/mnsc.7.1.80

Relationships Between Organization Size and Efficiency

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The relation between productivity, efficiency and size of a technical organization as affected by internally generated and circulated paperwork is analyzed. It is shown that there exists an upper bound to total productive output which is independent of the number of employees; and that as the organization size is increased the efficiency generally first rises and then falls off inversely proportionally to the number of employees.

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Management decision making, including multiple objectives

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