Operational Research and the Behavioural Sciences

Abstract

Operational research has set for itself the general goal of providing solutions to management problems. In view of this the authors assert that operational research has paid scant attention to work in the behavioural sciences in devising its approaches to problems. This omission can be serious. It can also be remedied, at least in part, and it is the purpose of this article to lay a foundation for such a remedy.

^†Based on a paper read to the Midlands Operational Research Society on 13 March 1964 by J. M. Dutton, Joseph Lucas Visiting Professor in Engineering Production, University of Birmingham.

^†Based on a paper read to the Midlands Operational Research Society on 13 March 1964 by J. M. Dutton, Joseph Lucas Visiting Professor in Engineering Production, University of Birmingham.