Principles of Management

Management interventions can be viewed as planned changes in the work setting designed to change the behavior of organizational members and lead to desirable organizational outcomes (CARDY, 2001, 55). Given this description, management intervention is a very broad topic area, even for purposes of a book, let alone a chapter. Virtually any systematic approach to improving performance effectiveness in organizations would qualify as a viable example of a management intervention. For purposes of this chapter, we focus on management interventions in the modern history of organizations since the industrial revolution.

Further, we limit consideration here to interventions that ...