Source: "The Distribution of Control and Responsibility in a Modern Economy", 1935, p. 64
“Shipping board. The form of the organization of the Shipping Board was based originally on its functions as a semi judicial body in regulation of rates. During the war it was loaded with enormous administrative duties. It has been demonstrated time and again that this form of organization results in indecision, division of opinion and administrative functions, which make a wholly inadequate foundation for the conduct of a great business enterprise. The first principle in securing the objective set out by Congress in building up the American merchant marine upon the great trade routes and subsequently disposing of it into private operation can not proceed with effectiveness until the entire functions of the board are reorganized. The immediate requirement is to transfer into the Emergency Fleet, Corporation the whole responsibility of operation of the fleet and other property, leaving to the Shipping Board solely the duty of determining certain major policies which require deliberative action.”
1920s, Second State of the Union Address (1924)
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Source: The administrative theory in the state, 1923, p. 116

Source: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 40

Source: 1930s, "Science, Value and Public Administration", 1937, p. 189

Source: Henri Fayol addressed his colleagues in the mineral industry, 1900, p. 908

I have chosen certain subjects which seem to me to go to the heart of personnel relations in industry. I wish to consider in this paper the most fruitful way of dealing with conflict. At the outset I should like to ask you to agree for the moment to think of conflict as neither good nor bad; to consider it without ethical prejudgment; to think of it not as warfare, but as the appearance of difference, difference of opinions, of interests. For that is what conflict means — difference. We shall not consider merely the differences between employer and employee, but those between managers, between the directors at the Board meetings, or wherever difference appears.
Source: Dynamic administration, 1942, p. 1. Lead paragraph

(1921, p. 10); Diemer quotes the ASCM committee
Factory organization and administration, 1910
Source: Onward Industry!, 1931, p. 50-59, as cited in Lyndall Urwick (1937;50)
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