The Organization Man

  political parties, suburbia, 300

  politics, college seniors, 64–65

  policy making, contributions of social science, 30

  population, migration, 269

  positivism, study of man, 25

  postgraduate training schools, 109

  pragmatism, American tradition, 21

  prematurity, permanent, 396–397

  Price, Lucien, Dialogues of Whitehead, 229 fn

  Pride of Lions, A (Brooks), 271 fn

  Printers Ink, advertising schools, 87

  privacy, suburbanites, 351–353

  productivity, morale, 57, 401

  professional manager, 121, 125

  professional-school movement, 96

  profile charts, 193–197

  projectism, foundations, 230–240

  projective tests, 185–187, 191

  Protestant Council of New York City, advice to radio speakers, quoted, 378

  Protestant Ethic: American Dream, 4, 5–6; capitalism, 16; college seniors, 70; corporation trainee programs, 112, 113; decline, 14–22; divergence from the reality, 17; High Noon, 257; individualism, 9; middle class, 253 fn; morality identified with savings, 324; popular fiction (1870’s), 249; return to, 399; Social Ethic, clash, 161; top executives, 141; workers and employers affected by, 42

  psychological consulting firms, growth of, 174–175

  Psychological Corporation, 174

  Psychological Testing, Essentials of (Cronbach), 189 fn

  psychological tests, symptomatic, 38

  psychology, courses in, 92–93

  public relations: career choice, 74–75; Masters degree in, 86; social engineering, 26

  Public Relations Journal, quoted, 26

  Punch, 176

  purchases, group-conditioned, 313–314

  Purdue University, placement operation, 63–64

  purposelessness, virtue of, 208

  Pusey, Nathan, 90

  Pushing to the Front, 253

  R

  relativism, ethical, 28

  religion, segregating effect, 354

  religious affiliations, suburbia, 301, 310

  Remmers, H. H., 409 fn

  Rensselaer Polytechnic’s Personnel Testing Laboratory, 175

  replacement process, metropolitan centers, 274

  research: academic, 217; committee-planning, 222–224; design, 224–226; fundamental versus applied, 218–219; independent researcher, 206; individual versus collective, 219–222; investment in, 205, 207, 218; organized, 222–223

  “Research: The Long View,” quoted, 210–211

  Research, Teamwork in (Bush and Hattery), 227

  research team, self-ignition theory, 227

  revolving credit, 327–328

  Richardson, H. S., 114, 120 fn

  Richter, Curt, quoted, 225

  Riesman, David, 186, 396, 411

  Roberts, David R., “Determinants and Effects of Executive Compensation,” 163 fn

  Roberts, Walter, quoted, 226 robot, replacing all human endeavor, 26

  Rockefeller Foundation: grants to individual research, 231; social-science research, 230

  Roe, Anne, quoted, 211

  Roethlisberger, F. S., Management and the Worker, 33 fn

  rootlessness: industrial worker, 33; organization man, 268; problem of, 288

  Roper, Elmo, attitude toward education, survey, 96–97

  Rorschach Inkblot test, 173

  Russia, false analogy with, 90–91

  Russian Research Center, Harvard University, 233

  S

  sadism, vicarious, 254

  Saint-Simon, Comte de, 25

  salary, seniors’ disinterest, 70–71

  Sales Management, corporation wives, 259 fn

  sanctimonious materialism, 250–251

  San José State College, degrees in advertising, 87

  Sane Society, The (Fromm), 362

  “Saturday Evening Post, The New Faith of the” (Brustein), 257 savings, suburbanites, 321–322

  Schacter, Stanley, Social Pressures in Informal Groups, 346 fn

  Schein, Harry, “The Olympian Cowboy,” 257 fn

  scholars, communities of, 233

  science, major questions, 229

  Science, technical articles, authorship, 220

  Science, The Counter-Revolution of (Hayek), 23 fn

  science and technology, antithetical, 398

  Science Research Associates, 174

  sciences, basic, decline of, 81

  Scientific American, 211; major questions in science, 229

  scientific genius, anachronism, 47

  scientism, 22–32; dominance, 31; ethical relativism, 28; example, 28; impact, 32; science-fiction writers, 31; Social Ethic, 23; underlying fallacies, 182

  scientist: bureaucratization, 217–230; company oriented, 402; free research, 209–211, 215; need for independence, 211–212; relation to organization, 212–213

  Scientists, Origins of American (Knapp and Goodrich), 92

  Sears, Roebuck and Company: personality tests, 173, 174; profile charts, 194, 195

  security, seniors’ interest in, 71–73

  “Selective Service College Qualification Test, The Use of” (Chauncey), 84 fn

  self-improvement books, 252–253

  self-reliance, 18

  self-sufficiency, doctrine of, 42

  Shakespeare, William, 99

  Shames, Priscilla, 282 fn

  Shannon, Claude, 209

  Shell Chemical Company, moving management group, 275 fn

  Shell Development Corporation, industrial scientists, 208

  Shinn, Charles, 293

  shoplifters, Park Forest, 363 fn, 371

  shopping centers, suburban, 316–317

  Sklare, Marshall, 375 fn

  small-business man, counterrevolutionist, 19

  Smith, Gerald, 383, 385 fn–386 fn; quoted, 384

  sociability, teaching of, 302

  social-adjustment curriculum, 97

  social barriers, community housing, 347–348

  social engineering: ethics, determining, 28; prescriptions for the new society, 32; public relations, 26; social science, 27; United Nations, applied to, 30

  Social Ethic: ambition, 156, 157; antithesis, denial of, 167; apotheosis, 392; applied to science, 205; basis of, 394; charge against, 396–398; concept, 6; conformity, 11; corporation trainee programs, 112; emphasis of, 12; groundwork, laying, 20–21; major propositions, 7; man’s obligation, 8; opiate, 166; personality tests, 171; Protestant Ethic, clash between, 161; scientism, 23; suburbanites’ impulse, 298; top executives, 141; universality, 9–10; web of friendship, 350

  social laboratory, Park Forest, 331

  “Social Mobility and Economic Advancement” (Foote and Hatt), 278 fn

  Social Pressures in Informal Groups (Festinger, Schacter and Back), 346 fn

  Social Problems of an Industrial Civilization (Mayo), 35

  Social Psychology, Journal of, quoted, 190

  Social Research, Inc., 216

  social revolution, fruits of, 309

  social science: methodology, 226; policy-making contributions, 30; research grants, 230–231, 232 fn; social engineering, 27

  Social Science Research Council, 232

  social sciences, college graduates, 81

  social scientists, foundation grants, 234–239

  Social System of the Modern Factory, 39

  society: adaptive, 36; perfectibility, 22;

  society as hero, 248–263

  Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, company policy, quoted, 214

  specialty made into a program, 86

  Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, “Research: The Long View,” quoted, 210–211

  “Stanines,” tests, 183–184

  Stanley Home Products demonstrations, 354 fn

  Steele, Lowell, “Personnel Practices in Industrial Laboratories,” quoted, 211, 212

  Steffens, Lincoln, 250

  Steinmetz, Charles Pro
teus, 137, 207

  Stephenson, William, “Correction of the Clark-Owens Validation Study of the Worthington Personal History Technique,” 189

  Sterne, Laurence, quoted, 25

  Strang, Dr. Ruth, quoted, 391

  students, passing score, percentages, 83 fn-84 fn

  suburban classlessness, 298–312

  suburban temper, 392

  suburbanites, sense of community, 381

  suburbs: age distribution, 342 fn; package, 10, 267, 280–281; social importance of small differences, 307–308

  success, social demands, 158–159

  Sunday school, importance to suburbanites, 380

  Sunday Times, London, college graduate shortage, 111

  survey courses, 95

  survival of fittest, 14

  Swift, Jonathan, 99

  Symonds, Professor Percival M., 83

  Syracuse University, business school, 87

  T

  talent, fight against, 228

  tangible goals, absence of, 157, 159

  Tannenbaum, Frank, 45; A Philosophy of Labor, quoted, 41, 42

  Taylor, Frederick Winslow, scientific management principles, 34, 172

  teacher education, 83, 98

  Teacher in America (Barzun), 197–198

  teacher salaries, Park Forest, 389–390

  team articles, 219–221

  teamwork, incubus of, 402

  technicians: college graduates (1954–1955), 80, 81; generation of, 394

  techniques, colleges seniors’ interest in, 67–68

  technology, concentration in Big Business, 216

  technology and science, antithetical, 398

  Technology Review, The, 90

  Temple Beth Sholom, Park Forest, 375

  test: “Alpha,” 172; aptitude, 172, 182–183, 184; composite personality, 180–181; high score, rules for, 196–197; personality, 8, 9, 13, 38, 171, 173–179, 182, 184; questions, 188–191; reliability, 188; scores, interpretation, 185–187; validity, 189

  tests of conformity, 182–201 Texas, University of, advertising education, 87

  Thematic Apperception test, 173, 186

  They Went to College (study), 269

  Thimblin, Lucille, quoted, 382

  Thompson, J. Walter, agency, advertisement, quoted, 17–18

  Thoreau, Henry David, 27

  Thorndike, Dr. Robert L., quoted, 190

  thrift: advice of Henry Clews, 15; organization man, 17

  Thurstone Temperament Schedule, 199, 406 fn

  Tichenor, George, quoted, 90–91

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 5, 396; quoted, 395

  togetherness, 46–59

  tolerance, suburbanites, 357–358

  Tolley, Howard, quoted, 227, 228

  Tomorrow Is Already Here (Jungk), 399 fn

  traditionalism and modernism, opposition between, 97

  trailer-camp settlements, 319 fn

  training programs: corporations, 110–112; post-graduate, 110–111

  transients, organization men, 267–280, 295

  Tynan, Richard, quoted, 165

  U

  undergraduates, scholastic aptitude tests, 83

  “Unexpected Hero” (Horgan), 256

  unified study courses, high-school, 388, 390–391

  uniformities, surface, American life, 10

  unions: instruments of governance, 42; social group, 41

  Unitarian church, Park Forest, 372

  united church movement, 378–379

  United Nations, social engineering applied to, 30

  United Protestant Church, Park Forest, 366–372, 379

  United States, fluid society, 268

  United States Army, draft deferment program, 83

  United States Machine Corporation, corporation wives, 259 fn

  UNIVAC, 31

  Universal Card, tests, 175–176

  universities, government research contracts, 219

  Utilization of Scientific and Professional Manpower, Proceedings of the Conference on the, 84 fn

  utopia, contemporary prescription, 45

  Utopia, Ltd.(Orlans), 308 fn, 348 fn

  Utopian communities, 7, 282

  V

  Values, A Study of (Airport, Vernan and Lindzey), 410 fn

  Veblen, Thorstein B., 20, 250, 277

  Vernan, Philip E., 410 fn

  Veterans of Future Wars, 65

  Vick Executive Development Program, 120 fn

  Vick School of Applied Merchandising, 112–119

  Victorious Attitude, The, 253

  View from Fompey’s Head, The (Basso), 271 fn

  vocationalism: increase, 79–81; saturation point, 96

  Voegelin, Eric, 23 fn

  W

  Walz, Mona L., personnel study, 133 fn

  Warner, W. Lloyd, 41, 45, 268; Big Business Leaders in America, 278 fn; Newburyport study, 38–40

  Weber, Max, 4, 16

  Weingarten, Murray, Life in a Kibbutz, quoted, 293

  Weiss, E. B., 25; quoted, 26

  Weiss and Geller, 284

  welfare statism, 5

  well-rounded man, 129–137

  well-roundedness, goal of, 142

  Wells, H. G., quoted, 294

  Western Electric Company, Hawthorne plant study, 33–35

  Westinghouse Electric Corporation: Management Development Personnel Code Card, 176; personality tests, 173

  Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, 85, 88

  What Makes an Executive (Ginzberg), 190 fa

  Wheaton, William L., 346 fn Whitehead, Alfred North, 6; quoted, 229

  Whitehead, Dialogues of (Price), 229 fn

  Whitman, Walt, 46

  Whittle, Frank, 223

  Whitworth College, degrees in advertising, 87

  Whyte, Launcelot Law, quoted, 216, 223

  Whyte, William Foote, 54; quoted, 55

  wife programs, corporations’, 258 wives: feeling of inadequacy, 363; social demands of success, 158–159

  “Wives, In Praise of Ornery,” 259

  Wolfle, Dael, “Distribution of Ability of Students Specializing in Different Fields,” 84 fn

  Wolfe, Thomas, You Cant Go Home Again, 271 fn

  Wolff, Mrs. Selma, 282 fa

  Woman’s World (motion picture), 261; quoted, 262

  women, slenderness progression, 317

  work week, executives, 143–144 workers’ emancipation, 309

  Worthington, R. E., “Personnel Assessment, New Technique for,” 189 fn

  Worthington Personal History, construction, 191–192

  “Worthington Personal History Blank, a Validation Study of the” (Clark and Owens), 189 fn

  “Worthington Personal History Technique, A Correction of the Clark-Owens Validation Study” (Peck and Stephenson), 189 fn

  Wouk, Herman, The Caine Mutiny, 243–248

  Y

  Yale University, demand for liberal arts student, 102

  Yoder, Dale, personnel study, 133 fn

  You Cant Go Home Again (Wolfe), 271 fn

  Young, Robert, 153

  fn Your Forces and How to Use Them, 253

  Youth Research Institute, surveys, 70 fn, 71 fn, 72 fn