Ordway tead biography of william

Ordway Tead (10 September – November ) was an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor of industrial relations at Columbia University, chair of the New York Board of Higher Education, first president of the Society for Advancement of Management (SAM), editor and publishing executive, and prolific author on personnel administration and labor relations, organizational management, higher education, and political science.

Personal

Tead was born in Somerville, Massachusetts the son of Edward Sampson () and Louise Moore Ordway () Tead. In Tead married Clara Alberta Murphy (), long term president of Briarcliff College and they had one daughter, Diana Tead Michaelis ( ) who was an award-winning documentary filmmaker and public television producer. Tead died in Westport, Connecticut in November

Career

Tead graduated from Boston Latin School in attended Amherst College where he obtained his AB After his graduation he served as fellow of the Amherst College at Southend House, a settlement house in Boston, from to In he co-founded Valentine, Tead & Gregg, an industrial consultants' firm in Boston, Massachusetts. In he accepted a consulting position in the Bureau of Industrial Research in New York City until circa Following the U.S.A.'s entry into the First World War, Tead and Dr. Henry C. Metcalf co-taught the War Industries Board Employment Management Course at Columbia University in to train employment and industrial relations managers for companies engaged in war production. This course provided the foundation for their pioneering textbook on this topic.

Tead continued to teach as a lecturer in personnel administration at Columbia University from to and as an adjunct professor of industrial relations until From to he was a member of the department of industry at the New York School of Social Work. From to he was c

Ordway Tead (10 September – November ) was an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor of industrial relations.

Quotes

• Leadership is that combination of qualities by the possession of which one is able to get something done by others, chiefly because through his influence they become willing to do it.
  • Ordway Tead "The Nature and Use of Creative Leadership". In: Bulletin of the Taylor Society. Vol 12, Nr p.

• [Committees are] a tool of the democratic, knowledge-pooling, and desire-harmonizing process which cannot be otherwise forwarded. And when committees fail, as they sometimes do, it is because the limits to their role are not clearly understood or because they have not benefited by proper leadership from the chairman.
  • Ordway Tead () Creative Management: The Relation of Aims to Administration. p.

• Administration is the process and agency which is responsible for the determination of the aims for which an organization and its management are to strive, which establishes the broad policies under which they are to operate and which gives general oversight to the continuing effectiveness of the total operation in reaching the objectives sought.
  • Ordway Tead () Democratic administration. p.

• More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense, the necessary mandate of survival that we shall love all our neighbors as we do ourselves, is being confirmed and reaffirmed.
  • Attributed to Ordway Tead in: Forbes () The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life. p.

• Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual pers

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American engineer and business executive

William H. Gesell (June 8, – June 6, ) was an American engineer, business executive and director of Lehn & Fink Products Corporation in Bloomfield, New Jersey, now Sterling Drug. He served as the 2nd president of the Society for Advancement of Management in the years

Biography

Youth and early career

Gesell was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in , son of William Jacob Gesell and Laura (Thomas) Gesell. His father William J. Gesell () was one of the pioneers of Lehn & Fink, a New York wholesale druggists and manufacturing chemists. He had died suddenly after thirty-nine years at Lehn & Fink. Gesell attended Columbia University and the University of Michigan, where he graduated from in

After graduation he started his career as engineer with Lehn & Fink, Inc. In the late s at Lehn & Fink, Inc. Gesell supervised the completion of a new plant in Hoboken, N. J., including supervision of the machinery and power plant. After its completion William H. Gesell has been appointed general manager of the Lehn & Fink plant.

Later career and honours

By at Lehn & Fink, Inc. Gesell was works manager, by Vice President, and by President of the company.

Gesell also served as president of the Society for Advancement of Management in the years as successor of Ordway Tead, and was succeeded by Myron Henry Clark. In he was awarded the Taylor Key Award, one of the highest awards of the Society for Advancement of Management.

Selected publications

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