Management of Information Organizations

List of figures

1.1. Flow of information 7

1.2(a) Flow of information with positive energy 8

1.2(b) Flow of information with negative energy 8

1.3. Wisdom 12

1.4. Collective knowledge 27

1.5. Model of purposive human information behavior 29

1.6. Model of non-purposive human information behavior 30

1.7. Distributions of information 33

2.1. Development of organizational objective 59

2.2. Functions of policy 62

2.3. Organizational departments of a library as processors 65

2.4. Development of organizational structure 68

2.5. Progression of an organization from objective creation to objective achievement 69

2.6(a) Departmental structure of a for-profit organization (manufacturing organization) 71

2.6(b) Departmental structure of a nonprofit organization ...