January 19, 2020

1922 - Ten Years of Progress in Management from 1912



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No. 1876 TEN YEARS' PROGRESS IN MANAGEMENT By L. P. Alford, New York, N. Y.

TEN YEARS have passed since the Committee report on The Present State of the Art of Industrial Management was presented to The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

This  review has to base it upon the report of 1912, which was well received and in large measure approved.  At the outset, we should recall and pay generous tribute to three of our late great leaders who aided in preparing that report and took part in its discussion: Frederick W. Taylor, the pioneer in management; Henry L. Gantt, who humanized the movement; James M. Dodge, the earnest, constructive supporter.

To obtain information on the worth-while changes which have taken place, letters were written to management and industrial engineers, to executives of plants in various lines of industry, and to educators familiar with industrial developments. Many interviews were held with men having industrial and managerial


Presented during Management Week, Oct. 16-21, 1922 and at the Annual Meeting, New York, December 4 to 7, 1922, of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 1243

Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, v.44,  1922.
pp.1243- 

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