The article explains why businessmen in the United States must become active in politics. The author outlines various talents that businessmen can contribute to the government and reasons behind the relationship between government and business enterprises. An overview of the importance of political action and ways businessmen can be active in politics is provided. A discussion is presented about incentives and methods used by corporations in order to encourage and promote political activity among businessmen.
The article describes a design strategy which can be used to examine leadership and related behavior in decision conferences where the properties of complex organized systems are introduced into small group laboratory experimentation. Information is presented related to the simulation and experimental phase of the design strategy. A discussion is presented about variables identified with pure bureaucratic structure and the measures of leadership acts. The effects of leadership on organizational effectiveness are mentioned.
The article presents several abstracts dissertations in management research, including “The American Overseas Executive: An External Profile,” by Carlos J. Malferrari, “A History of Labor Unions in Mississippi,” by Donald Crumpton Mosley, and “The Grid Charting Technique for Management Information Systems,” by Gordon Thomas Shahin.
The article presents a comparative analysis of managers and entrepreneurs. The article defines entrepreneurs as those who are goal and action-oriented, and managers who carry out policies and procedures in order to meet these goals. The roles of independent motel owners and chain motel managers are used to explore the difference, focusing the study on motels in northern Arizona. The article defines the motel industry, outlines the selected personality variables, discusses the risk preference, presents the research methodology, proposes a series of hypotheses and measures, and analyzes the findings.
The article addresses the value of the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business (ATSB) in predicting the scholastic success of prospective students in a graduate business school. In conducting the study, the researchers made note of the unusual results found in studying foreign students and in the selection procedures of the school, which did not accept everyone who took the test. The article relates the study process, involving graduate students in business administration at the University of Oregon in the years 1959?1963, the findings, and the interpretation of those findings. The ATSB was found to be a satisfactory predictor of student success.
The article addresses the lack of empirical data related to research in effective leadership. The author presents a study of an insurance company whose structure consists of three separate, but structurally identical divisions that would allow for a comparative study. The study looks at the three different leadership modes and asks what impact leadership has in determining efficiency and productivity. The author presents the methodology and results, including subordinates' and superiors' attitudes about managerial effectiveness, qualitative measures of performance, efficiency, and cost and profit. The study showed a difference in subordinate attitudes, but qualitative measures were consistent across the three divisions. Interpretation of the results is presented.
The article reports on the presentation of the Academy of Management's McKinsey Book Awards for 1964 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on April 20. The article presents highlights of the event and recipients of awards, including Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Peter F. Drucker, Leonard R. Sayles, Margaret K. Chandler, and Louis A. Allen. Remarks from Drucker and Sloan are presented. Details regarding the awarding of the McKinsey prize are outlined, including criteria of eligibility and how the books are nominated and selected.
The article presents an obituary for Professor Emeritus Charles L. Jamison, former Professor of Business Policy at the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan.
In response to an earlier article in this journal by Eugene Mccann titled “An Aspect of Management Philosophy in the United States and Latin America,” the article discusses management in Latin Amer...
The characteristics associated with the creative individual and the identification of these characteristics have been explored in a companion paper in this Journal.1 Once this important task has been accomplished, the equally significant administrative question of the optimum utilization of this creative talent arises. The effective utilization of creative abilities within a goal seeking organization is conditioned by many variables including: top management's attitudinal posture regarding the value of creativeness and innovation; the organizational slack present in the resource inputs, and, certainly, the organizational climate created by the organization's design, control system, and reward system. Given the characteristics of the creative individual and given the recruitment of persons with creative abilities, this paper explores the issue of the organizational climate most conducive to the generation and maintenance of constructive creative responses oriented toward the organization's goals. We will first explore the question of what is the administrative hierarchy attempting to accomplish when it establishes a given organizational design. Within this framework, the organizational design of traditional administrative theory will be superimposed upon our model of the creative individual as developed previously. Given the basic incongruities of the ?fit,? the question of the possible variation of organizational structures to fit variable purposes arises. Finally, implications for possible organizational designs needed to utilize creative talent effectively will be explored.