SEVEN SOCIETAL CRITERIA OF ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS.

This article describes societal criteria of organizational success. Management success is an elusive concept. It frequently represents a set of intermediate evaluations which, in turn, it is hoped are approximations of more ultimate criteria of organizational success. In addition to a focus upon multidimensional societal criteria of organizational success, the relationship of these several criteria to the abilities and personality characteristics of the manager of each organization was also of interest. Most previous attempts to measure the contribution of ability and personality characteristics to organizational success have utilized criteria of limited and insufficient relevance. The degree to which manager ability and personality affect the success of the organization would be expected to be related to the size of the organization. In large organizations, a variety of additional factors would undoubtedly attenuate the importance of the characteristics of any one manager, even though he might be at the highest level.