ABSTRACT
This chapter is an interim report of some of the general and comparative results of a study made in eight firms of the way in which managers spend their time at work over a period of three, four, or five weeks. The main objects of the whole study were to obtain information first about the division of work among management groups, and about how each of these individual divisions was related to the others; second about how individual managers distributed their time between the functions of management; and third about the paths of communication used by managers. The total task of management is ordinarily split up among a number of individuals and groups which are designated by their main functions, and individual problems and tasks are commonly classified into a system of categories which follows the divisions of management: labour, sales, purchasing, production control, research and development, and the like.
