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PERSONALITY IN BUSINESS
EMPLOYER AND WORKER.
Personality in business, viewed from various standpoints, occupied attention last month at the concluding meeting of the Association for Education in Industry and Commerce, in the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-street.
Mr. Neil J. Maclean, who occupied the chair, said he regarded the question as one of the most important their associs tion could consider. It was, in his opis ion, one of the things which dominateri success in commercial and industrial life.
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all kinds of social and political activities. Surely there must be some connection between, this development and the damp ing down of individualism in the factory And so to supply the missing System. link was their greatest task to-day. It was impossible to set back the clock." time immediately before us men would Mass production was with us,
but for a chance to express themselves- strike not for more wages or fewer hours,
to leave their mark on time-to da nome- thing more than mind a machine or, willy. ailly, carry out orders
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NEED FOR ORGANISATION, Mr. P. A. Beat, à director of Selfridge And this was their chance--so to or and Co., who introduced the subject, said ganise and reorganise industry that men he spoke not as a philosopher or as a would become, not dependent tools, but sociologist, but as a business man and willing co-operators. (Hear, hear.) Their from the standpoint of the employer. As task was surely so to lay their plans that "such he wanted to sco personality deve all that was best in a mawahould he made loped to the utmost. He rented the use of, not for the lessening of output or apparent anomaly of advocating the the breaking down of essential standard- development of personality in an indusisation, but by harnessing him not to this trial age, when. what industries appar or that "ism," "but to the principle of ently required from the worker was everyday practical and patient reform, mechanical efficiency. Many might argue and so secure his goodwill during the that personality in the individual worker period of change and transition which would actually he a drawback to him as appeared to loom ahend. Equally to pro- producing machine. In the first place ducer as to manager, equally to machine he would reply that society could derive worker as to director, equally to the man no lasting benefit from any industry which who made as to the man who pold the regarded its workers solely in that light. Inrgest possible measure of expression of Such a view was flatly against the con personality in his own department of work science and heart of the world. Workers should be accorded to him. Thus only were not merely hands "-though that could they build up an industrial polity term betrayed the last century's attitude that would stand the strain which other towards them. It was iniquitous for any wise hade fair to wreck not only our employer to unfit his workpeople to take industrial supremacy. but our industrial a proper place as citizens of their town life. (Hear, benr.) If, to whole sections or their country, and that was what the of workpeople, no opportunity were stunting of personality would mean. So afforded for the development of person- much for the humanitarian argument. Auality on an individual basis, could they employer who drained or stultified the devise a scheme which would grant them spiritual resources of his employés was a corporate expression'? A vrst itúre of an chemy to society whatever dividends knowledge was locked away in the mind. he might pay. But from the business of many workers and very rarely to-day point of view the case for the cultivation found an outlet.. A great desire to help of the personality of each individual and co-operate was part and parcel of the worker was just is strong he was using make-up of most, if not all, of them. the word to mean the shining out from Flow could they provide an avenue? By a man of what was essentially himself advisory committees, by works comunit- In a distributive business the value of tees and councils, by dies of joint personality was self-evident. Mr. Rest control, by the adoption of the complete proceeded to illustrate its value as it co-system of applied humanics they called cerned the buyer-in relation to the Whitleyism. Recently the Royal Presi manufacturer or traveller, and the niem- dent of the Industrial Welfare Society hers of his staff and also the sellers. called upon them to "build a new indus But even in the most mechanical of oc- trial philosophy." It was a call to which, cupations, he declared that it was an all that was best in industry, in com asset. A sense of personality engendered merce, upd in the nation should respond. self-confidence. It was the Inck of self (Hear, hear.) And just as in politics confidence and of the sense of personal Labour could find expression in Parlia value which held back men and women ment itself so an industrial parliament from using their full powers. In order to should be the culminating point of all encourage and develop personality, ha their industrial arrangements and agree. suggested that those in authority should ments, in whose deliberations all the be natural and self-expressive, and strive prime factors in business should find ex- as far as possible to eliminate fear from pression. (Hear, heur.) business. Fear as an instrument Was often immediately efficacious, but in so far as it discouraged, rather than encour aged, it was uneconomical However, fear might be used when necessary to awaken a man's interest in himself. They must discourage petty tyrannies. Work ers should be placed under men who would be intensely interested in them as human beings, and make friends with then More than mere mechanicht skill was necessary to make good lenders. Those in nuthority should also develop instruments of self-expression, such as proper use of English, a sense of taste in dress, athleticism, dramatic societies, and social amenities, They should en courage persistently the expression of ideas. He claimed that the development of personality was an essential part of intelligent management of industry and commerce. (Hear, beak)
AN INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM.
In the course of n discussion Mr. W Daniels said he saw no way of developsage personality except by means of education. in its widest sense, so that outside their working hours people could take a deeper and keener interest in life.
Professor Mellis urged the value of technical institutes in providing the type of education that would increase the in- terest of the varker in the industry in which he was engaged.
The Chairman regarded the idea of cor- pornte personality as of real importance in considering the problem.
Principal . Schofield, Mrs. M. A. Cloudesley Brereton, Major Knowles, Mr. Harold Rostron, and Miss G. A. Burton spoke briefly, and at the close of the dis.. cussion" Mr. Button expressed the view that unless something were done either by shortening the hours of labour or by making productive enterprise more buman, so as to give everybody a chance
Mr. F. S. Button (Amalgamated Engin life, there would be some kind of an neering Union), who dealt with the sub-industrial Armageddon.
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the subject of an illustrated article con tributed by Admiral Sir Edward Charl- ton to Smith's Dork Monthly, the house magazine of the well-known Shields firm Ad- of ship repairers and shipbuilders. miral Charlton was President of the Naval ster-Allied Control Commission detailed to carry out this work.
The German Naval Commission on the
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Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by a servant or employé in contravention of section 3 of this. Ordinance the employer, whether a natural person or a body corporate,, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance unless he proves affirma tively that the sale was against his express orders and without his consent or connivance."
5-Every person to whom any liquor is to the knowledge of such person, supplied în contraven- tion of this Ordinance shall also be guilty of an offence against this" Ordinance.
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of personality. Was it not nude up...he asked, of their experiences and know-1 ledge, their needs, ambitions, and pecï-[/ liarities-the sun-total being that soine- "The Dismantling of Heligoland" is thing for which they counted, and for which the world valued them. If that was personality, how could it be expressed in business 7 If they functioned as directors or managers, personality had scope and freedom; if they worked as producers, it had little or none. If their position were that of a labour director or a muster
On arriving in Heligoland in February, mechanic, a draughtswan or a welfare
1020, a Sub Commission were informed by supervisor, their opportunities for ex pressing their personality would be mani-the Germans that the work would take seven years to finish Pressure, however, fold. If their wish were that of secur ing new markets, with all the ramifica made in the German plans, with the result was exerted, and various changes were tions and special skill required for such the the destructions were completed by a task, the greater would be their chance J1st, 1922, to the satisfaction of the of proving the value of personality, The Ahed Governments. main purpose of business surely must be to produce fommodities for human needs island included the engineer who construct- and human consumption by the cheapested the war harbour, and he had the morti- and most expeditious of possible methods fention of destroying his own work. The How could personalité" to "business be entrance moles were left for some 400 applied? If they attenuated to run a matris out; beyond that their foundations newspaper without personality they would were destroyed by explosives, and, assisted utterly fail. If they discussed the matter by the winter gales of 1921-2 soon became from the point of view of industry, would shapeless mass of ruins. All buildings the same kind of argument Mold good for the reclaimed
in the dockyard ground their commercial life Industry must be were demolished. The caisson of the dry carefully sub-divided, and then they founddock was removed, and the dock walls were! that, in whole branches of it the encour destroyed by successive heavy chargés.. acment of personality was entirely im- The fortifications were attacked system possible, and contrary to its main puratically, the guns being first ent up into pose. If he were right, then they appear. portable lengths of a few feet and of. .B ed to have reached the conclusion that in weight of less than five tons. Turret walls ware unbolted and pulled over, redoubt the very nature of things some factors in production had free scope for the full use armour being blown up after holes had of their powers, whilst others were hindi- been made by the oxygen process. All Changchun capped if, by the development of person pieces were sent below through the tunnel Dairen ality, they felt the curb and restriction from the Oberland to the dockyard, ship- Hailar of routine and automatic use of hand and ped to Germany, and sold a naval war Uraia. And so they needed a different material for the benefit of the Allies. argument for commerce and banking, in
Below the surface the plan was which fields nearly all got their chance, from that which would probably apply to industry, where only a very few got their chance, whilst the many lacked the op- portunity of individual expression. The great problem confronting the statesmen of industry to-day was to supply the miss ing link. The creative energy of man, the freedom of his mind, the ministering to his love of adventure, the loas sustain ed in failing to interest his inventive ardour, had all to be taken into necount when industrial policy was being deter mined. They had only to look around to see the tremendous amount of energy dis played by working men and women in
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