Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Factory Organization and Administration
In preparing the third edition of this text, the principal modifications which have been necessary in order to conform to the evolution of management and standards of present-day practice have been in those chapters which relate to general organization, the personnel department including employment and industrial relations, and functional control of production. Minor changes have been incorporated in various chapters to conform to current methods.
As stated in the preface to the first edition, this book is intended to be of service to officers of manufacturing corporations, works managers, superintendents, accountants, and the heads of such departments as purchasing, stores, personnel, cost, and production, and in fact to all employees of manufacturing corporations who desire to acquire a comprehensive grasp of the problems treated. It is the result of a good many years experience on the part of the writer, of which time about one-half was spent as an employee and about one-half as a consultant and executive.
The work has gradually acquired its present form as the result of magazine articles and of lecture courses delivered for a number of years to students in engineering colleges and before commercial and manufacturing organizations and it is believed that while primarily intended for the actual practitioner in manufacturing work, it will be of value to engineering students.
It has been a source of gratification to the author that this book of his has stood the test of time so satisfactorily, as has been evidenced by its continued sale year after year to industrial executives and employees as well as being used as a text in leading colleges of engineering, business administration and commerce and finance.
It is the author's hope that the present revision may result in a continued usefulness of the book.
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