Cooperative organisation and management

As an instrument of social and economic change the cooperative form of organisation has come to gain almost universal te cognition. What has however retarded the progress of cooperatives in many parts of the world is the relative neglect of the imperatives of managing these organisations as economic enterprises with relevant management policies, practices and systems within the socio-cultural environments of the local community.

K. K. Taimni presents here in this book a penetrating analysis of the various facets of the cooperative organisation, the cultural constraints on its management, the influence of value structure on managerial practices, the imperatives of cooperative development and the contemporary relevance of coopera tives to the ever-changing urges within the communities around.

The book also maps out strategy. a founded on principles of cooperation and management for the healthy structural, orga nisational and operational growth of coope rative concepts in developing countries. It could be used as a contemporary treatise on the subject by the cooperative administrators. trainers, executives, students and others in terested in this subject.

Though primarily written for the Indian roadership it should equally appeal to similar readership beyond the frontiers of the sub continent.