Good Advice for Happier Industry
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Niyucii of interest and profit to all Pa engaged in industry is contained in "Managers. Men and Morale," by Wilfred B. D. Brown, M.B.E., and Winifred Raphael. B.Sc.(1-lons.)Psychology, and published by Messrs. Macdonald and Evans, 8, John St., Bedford Row, W.C.1 at 10s. 6d.
True, it is not intended to apply directly to road transport, but so wide are its incursions into the field of human industrial relationships that it cannot fail to cover the advisory needs of our own industry. Indeed, a hypo thetical transpon organi is don is
quoted as an example when it is desired to illustrate the difference between executive and functional managers.
The authors show an intimate practical knowledge of industry itself, as well as of abstract considerations. The machine-shop is more than once quoted as the scene of typical situations, and theories and deductions are applied to particular industries, in some cases to automobile engineering and transport system. The "human touch" is not lacking and industrialists will be familiar with many of the very real problems envisaged.