THE NEW PACE IN INDUSTRY.
“I am aware that in England we have some factories managed as well as any in the world ; but I am afraid it is undoubtedly true that there is in this country a larger mass of cynicism regarding scientific management than there is anywhere else in the world. There is a larger proportion of men in charge of businesses who do not recognise the need for any intellectual preparation for the job of management. Tiicre is a larger pieportion of people who think that just because a man is Ins father’s son lie can manage the business which his father managed. 1 lie fact is that the pace of industry is very rapidly increasing, and the standard of efli-
ciency needed for success is rapidly rising. The British are second to nono in technical matters, but they have been inclined to neglect the questions of administration and oiganisation.”—Mr Seebolnn Rountree, in the “Yorkshire Post.,”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 8
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159THE NEW PACE IN INDUSTRY. Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1929, Page 8
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