An Annotated Research Bibliography on Elliott Jaques
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Bottom-Up Management: Participative Philosophy and Humanistic Psychology in American Organizational Culture, 1930-1970
Bottom-Up Management: Participative Philosophy and Humanistic Psychology in American Organizational Culture, 1930-1970 Jenna Feltey Alden Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2012 © 2012 Jenna Feltey Alden All rights reserved ABSTRACT Bottom-Up Management: Participative Philosophy and Humanistic Psychology in American Organizational Culture, 1930-1970 Jenna Feltey Alden This dissertation examines the rise and fall of participative and humanistic management in American organizational culture. In the years surrounding World War II, an influential network of psychologists and human-relations experts successfully promoted the idea that managers’ involvement of subordinates in decision-making, along with their cultivation of underlings’ authentic self-expression, would boost the effectiveness of organizations, individuals, and the nation as a whole. Four men proved particularly influential in this endeavor: German social psychologist Kurt Lewin (co-founder of the National Training Laboratories), survey pioneer Rensis Likert (founder of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan), humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow (developer of the “hierarchy of needs”), and industrial psychologist Douglas McGregor (author of The Human Side of Enterprise). Each of these men was deeply concerned about the fate of democracy in modern society, which they feared was endangered by both authoritarianism abroad and bureaucratic dehumanization at home. Each insisted that the nurturing of participation and “self-actualization” within organizations could help build an increasingly peaceful order in industry and the world at large. Ultimately, they found their most enthusiastic converts within the corner offices and personnel departments of corporations. -
The Cybernetics Moment New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Jeffrey Sklansky, Series Editor the Cybernetics Moment
The Cybernetics Moment New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Jeffrey Sklansky, Series Editor The Cybernetics Moment Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age RONALD R. KLINE Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore © 2015 Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2015 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kline, Ronald R., author. The cybernetics moment: or why we call our age the information age / Ronald R. Kline. pages cm. — (New studies in American intellectual and cultural history) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4214-1671-7 (hardcover : acid-free paper) — ISBN 1-4214-1671-9 (hardcover : acid-free paper) — ISBN 978-1-4214-1672-4 (electronic) — ISBN 1-4214-1672-7 (electronic) 1. Information theory. 2. Cybernetics—Social aspects. I. Title. II. Title: Cybernetics moment. III. Title: Why we call our age the information age. Q360.K56 2015 303.48'33—dc23 2014035091 A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Special discounts are available for bulk purchases of this book. For more information, please contact Special Sales at 410-516-6936 or [email protected]. Johns Hopkins University Press uses environmentally friendly book materials, including recycled text paper that is composed of at least 30 percent post-consumer waste, whenever possible. To the memory of Alfred Motz, Margot Ruth Marcotte, Maggie Marcotte Mattke, Raymond Orville Kline, and Nellie Frank Motz Information is information, not matter or energy. -
Simonhead14.Pdf
2 CONTENTS Introduction: Toward a New Industrial State 1 Inside the Belly of the Beast 2 Walmart and Amazon 3 A Future for the Middle Class? 4 Managing the Human Resource 5 The Case of Goldman Sachs 6 Emotional Labor 7 The Military Half 8 The Nuclear Half 9 The Chinese Model 10 Any Way Out? Notes Acknowledgments Index 1 7 INTRODUCTION Toward a New Industrial State ALTHOUGH INEQUALITY OF INCOME AND WEALTH IN AMERICA HAS been growing steadily for the past forty years, it was with the Wall Street crash of 2007–2008 that this disparity took on lurid, visible form with the contrasting fortunes of the winners and losers. On the winning side, with their big bonuses, were many Wall Streeters who themselves bore responsibility for the crash. On the losing side were victims of the crash on Main Street, burdened with high unemployment, crushing personal debt, falling real wages, and shrinking personal wealth propelled by housing foreclosures. By grim coincidence, detailed statistical evidence of how extreme American inequality had become also appeared during the crisis year of 2007. The data revealed the great good fortune of the super rich—of the richest 1 percent, 0.1 percent, and even the richest 0.01 percent of Americans. The share of total income of the top 1 percent rose from 8 percent in 1974 to 18 percent in 2007 and from 9 percent to 23.5 percent if capital gains and income from investments were included. The equivalent share of the richest 0.1 percent of Americans rose from 2.7 to 12.3 percent and the share of the very richest, the top 0.01 percent, from less than 1 percent to 6 percent during the same period.1 The reverse side of this massive concentration of income and wealth at the earnings pinnacle—unprecedented since the pre-1914 Gilded Age—is the stagnation or fall in the real incomes of virtually everybody else. -
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
Comments on FUTURE SHOCK C. P. Snow: "Remarkable ... No one ought to have the nerve to pontificate on our present worries without reading it." R. Buckminster Fuller: "Cogent ... brilliant ... I hope vast numbers will read Toffler's book." Betty Friedan: "Brilliant and true ... Should be read by anyone with the responsibility of leading or participating in movements for change in America today." Marshall McLuhan: "FUTURE SHOCK ... is 'where it's at.'" Robert Rimmer, author of The Harrad Experiment: "A magnificent job ... Must reading." John Diebold: "For those who want to understand the social and psychological implications of the technological revolution, this is an incomparable book." WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Explosive ... Brilliantly formulated." LONDON DAILY EXPRESS: "Alvin Toffler has sent something of a shock-wave through Western society." LE FIGARO: "The best study of our times that I know ... Of all the books that I have read in the last 20 years, it is by far the one that has taught me the most." THE TIMES OF INDIA: "To the elite ... who often get committed to age-old institutions or material goals alone, let Toffler's FUTURE SHOCK be a lesson and a warning." MANCHESTER GUARDIAN: "An American book that will ... reshape our thinking even more radically than Galbraith's did in the 1950s ... The book is more than a book, and it will do more than send reviewers raving ... It is a spectacular outcrop of a formidable, organized intellectual effort ... For the first time in history scientists are marrying the insights of artists, poets, dramatists, and novelists to statistical analysis and operational research. -
The Guardian Angels ___ They're Here to Protect, Serve and Defend
R. I, Jewish Historical Associat ion 11 130 Sessions Street Providence, RI 02906 Support Jewish Read By More Than Agencies 40,000 With Your People Membership THE ONLY ENGLISH-JEW/SH WEEKLY fN R. I. AND SOUTHEAST MASS VO LUME LXVIII , NUMBER 29 THURSDAY, JUNE 11 , 1981 .;30~ PJ;R_ GOPY Israel Chastised For Attack On Iraqi Reactor , l I Whil e Israel proudly defends its destruc The Iraqi news agency, reporting the at tion of an atomic. reactor in Iraq this week, tack after the Israeli announcement, said U.S. and Arab governments, fri ends and foes nine aircraft had been involved. American alike, are condemning the raid and calling for military sources sa id the bombing was by sa nctions. American-made F-4 Phantoms, escorted by A surpri sed State Department said the at F-15s. tack was .. a very seri ous development and a , Begin said the attack had been timed for a so urce of utmost concern." In its harshest Sunday to reduce _the likelihood of injuring criticism yet of Israel, it also said Israel may the French, Italian and Brazilian experts who have violated a 1952 aid agreement with the had been working on the reactor. U.S. barring the use of American-made war Although France had insisted that the planes ~ac~~1tress~on . reactor was intended onl y for research, Israel The Reagan Administration announced said the reactor had been designed to Wednesday the suspension of shipment of produce atomi c bombs. four jet fighters because of the possible vio The target fo r the bombs would be Is rael, lation. -
Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture
Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture Luca Prono Greenwood Press ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GAY AND LESBIAN POPULAR CULTURE i ii ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GAY AND LESBIAN POPULAR CULTURE ★ LUCA PRONO GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London iii Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Prono, Luca. Encyclopedia of gay and lesbian popular culture / Luca Prono. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 978–0–313–33599–0 (alk. paper) 1. Homosexuality—North America—Encyclopedias. 2. Homosexuality— Great Britain—Encyclopedias. 3. Popular culture—North America. 4. Popular culture—Great Britain. I. Title. HQ75.13.P76 2008 306.76'603—dc22 2007032464 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2008 by Luca Prono All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2007032464 ISBN: 978–0–313–33599–0 First published in 2008 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 iv CONTENTS Entries vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture 1 Bibliography 297 Index 301 v vi E NTRIES Advocate, The Etheridge, Melissa AIDS Everett, Rupert Albee, Edward Franklin Fierstein, Harvey Forbes Allen, Chad Garland, Judy Araki, Gregg Grant, Cary Baldwin, James Haines, William Barnes, Djuna Harlem Renaissance Basic Instinct Harris, E.