H. Jack Shapiro

The motor freight industry—A case against planning

Abstract Data from 298 motor carrier firms were analyzed to determine the nature of the strategic planning function in that industry and the relationship between planning, organization size and economic performance. Generally, motor carriers were found to perform similarly irrespective of their size or commitment to strategic planning. A number of factors are suggested to explain this phenomenon.

Product‐market planning: Middle management's bridge to the future

This article is based on a chapter from the forth‐coming NASCP book by the authors titled, The Practice of Planning: Strategic, Administrative and Operational.

Characteristics of Organizational Climate and Managerial Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Study

This study investigated the impact of perceived organizational climate on managerial job satisfaction of 114 managerial personnel who completed a three-part questionnaire which solicited demographic information and the identification of and preferences for specific characteristics of organizational climate. The surveyed personnel had a strong preference for open as opposed to closed characteristics of organizational climate; to the degree they claimed to be familiar with the behavioral science theories of management there is an increasingly favorable disposition toward the theories; and among those Ss who perceived closed characteristics, there was a desire for a diminution of the impact of those characteristics.