ABSTRACT
‘Sarabhai Industries’ was the tentative name that had been given to the newly formed group of units of Glass Making, Machinery Manufacturing, Building and Plant Installation, Fine Chemicals, and Baroda Site Services. The primary task of all, with the exception of Baroda Site Services, was to make a profit, but the methods of performance and the resources for and constraints on performance differed for each one. The primary task of overall management would be to implement Baroda Group policy and to build up and develop units in which investment had been decided. It would have to ensure an adequate return for investment and hence good management in each individual enterprise. In effect, it would be a replica, in miniature, of the management of the Baroda Group. Its major control and service functions, if differentiated, would therefore be financial and personnel. In passing it was noted that service in the Sarabhai Industries overall management could serve as an apprenticeship for group management.
