How Long to Read Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes

How Long Does it Take to Read Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes?

It takes the average reader 15 hours and 38 minutes to read Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes by Donald Chisholm

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This monumental study provides an innovative and powerful means for understanding institutions by applying problem solving theory to the creation and elaboration of formal organizational rules and procedures. Based on a meticulously researched historical analysis of the U.S. Navy’s officer personnel system from its beginnings to 1941, the book is informed by developments in cognitive psychology, cognitive science, operations research, and management science. It also offers important insights into the development of the American administrative state, highlighting broader societal conflicts over equity, efficiency, and economy. Considering the Navy’s personnel system as an institution, the book shows that changes in that system resulted from a long-term process of institutional design, in which formal rules and procedures are established and elaborated. Institutional design is here understood as a problem-solving process comprising day-to-day efforts of many decision makers to resolve the difficulties that block completion of their tasks. The officer personnel system is treated as a problem of organized complexity, with many components interacting in systematic, intricate ways, its structure usually imperfectly understood by the participants. Consequently, much problem solving entails decomposing the larger problem into smaller, more manageable components, closing open constraints, and balancing competing value premises. The author finds that decision makers are unlikely to generate many alternatives, since searching for existing solutions elsewhere or inventing new ones is an expensive, difficult enterprise. Choice is usually a matter of accepting, rejecting, or modifying a single solution. Because time constraints force decisions before problems are well structured, errors are frequently made, problem components are at best only partially addressed, and the chosen solution may not solve the problem at all and even if it does is likely to generate unanticipated side-effects that worsen other problem components. In its definitive treatment of a critical but hitherto entirely unresearched dimension of the administration of the U.S. Navy, the book provides full details over time concerning the elaboration of officer grades and titles, creation of promotion by selection, sea duty requirements, graded retirement, staff-line conflicts, the establishment of the Reserve, and such unusual subjects as “tombstone promotions.” In the process, it transcends the specifics of the personnel system to give a broad picture of the Navy’s history over the first century and a half of its development.

How long is Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes?

Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes by Donald Chisholm is 924 pages long, and a total of 234,696 words.

This makes it 312% the length of the average book. It also has 287% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 21 hours and 22 minutes to read Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes aloud.

What Reading Level is Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes?

Waiting for Dead Men's Shoes is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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