Meeting the Threat of Managerial Obsolescence

Burack Elmer H. , “The Impact of the Computer on Business Management,” The Business Quarterly (Spring, 1966).

See Dubin Robert , Leadership and Productivity (San Francisco: Chandler Publishing Co., 1965).

Brody Rodney H. , “Computers in Top-Level Decision Making,” Harvard Business Review (July/August, 1967), pp. 67–76.

Woodward Joan , Management and Technology (London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1965).

Megginson Leon C. , Personnel, A Behavioral Approach to Administration (Homewood, Ill.: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1967), p. 139.

Burack McNichols , op. cit.

Based on a study made by the Carnegie Institute of Technology, “The Rising Crisis in Skills, More Jobs Than Skills,” Steel (September 7, 1964), p. 58.

Carrels Louis , “Eight Steps to Better Training,” Nation's Business (March, 1961), p. 40.

For a positive approach to forecasting these manpower implications see Haase Peter E. “Technological Change and Manpower Forecasts,” Industrial Relations (May, 1966), pp. 59–71.

Based on Burack Elmer H. McNichols Thomas J. , op. cit.; also, an earlier series of studies reported in Burack Elmer H. , “Industrial Management in Advanced Production Systems, Some Theoretical Concepts and Preliminary Findings,” Administrative Science Quarterly (December, 1967).

Bright James R. , Research Development and Technological Innovation (Homewood: Richard D. Irwin, 1964), pp. 130–134.

Developed by Raffaele J. A. , “Automation and the Coming Infusion of Power in Industry,” Personnel (May-June, 1962), pp. 32–33; and Megginson , op. cit., p. 135.

Buckingham Walter , “The Human Side of Automation,” Davis Keith Scott William G. , eds., Readings in Human Relations (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966).

See Bennis Warren , Changing Organizations (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966); and Burack Elmer H. , “Technology and Supervisory Functions: A Preliminary View,” Human Organization (Winter, 1967), pp. 256–264.

Bright , loc. cit.

Michael Donald N. , “Some Long Range Implications of Computer Technology for Human Behavior in Organization,” The American Behavioral Scientist (April, 1966), p. 29.

Based on a recent survey of employers by the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Manpower, Automation, and Training, “Formal Occupational Training of Adult Workers,” Manpower and Automation Research Monograph No. 2 (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, December, 1964).

Suggested in a panel on manpower and obsolescence at the 32nd Annual Midwestern Conference, Industrial Relations Association, University of Chicago (October, 1967).

Gouldner Alvin , “Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy” (Glencoe: Free Press, 1954).

See Gardner John W. , Self-Renewal (New York: Harper & Row, 1964).

Cassidy Robert E. , “Manpower Planning: A Co-ordinated Approach,” Personnel (September, 1963), p. 35.