{"title":"Decision Making, Growth, and Failure","authors":"S. Alpert, H. Weitz","doi":"10.1109/IRET-EM.1961.5007609","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A case study is presented of the changes in the ratio of ``administrative'' to ``productive'' personnel in the aircraft engine division of a large industrial firm. The ratio is traced over an eight year period through growth and decline stages. Some contributing factors and consequences of the A/P index are examined.","PeriodicalId":382847,"journal":{"name":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1961-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IRE Transactions on Engineering Management","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRET-EM.1961.5007609","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A case study is presented of the changes in the ratio of ``administrative'' to ``productive'' personnel in the aircraft engine division of a large industrial firm. The ratio is traced over an eight year period through growth and decline stages. Some contributing factors and consequences of the A/P index are examined.