Industrial Management 143

Research under the supervision of Henry S. Dennison,
 are presented in the report of President
Hoover's Committee on Recent Economic Changes,
as the result of interviews with five hundred people
employed by one hundred different concerns, chosen
as samples of normal, successfully established businesses
 in the United States. These were large and
small companies making moderate to notable successes
 in a variety of businesses in different sections
of the country, and the survey is believed by the
Committee to be a fair example of the group of
American business men whose management practices
would be considered the prevailing ones. The
report states:
“The last few years have been extremely favorable
 in many ways for the development of those
intellectual, moral, and social attitudes which lead
toward high professional standing. The situation
of today holds all the opportunity anyone could
desire for the wholesome development of business
management into a great profession.
“The greater complexity of business problems
and of the organization necessary to cope with them,
have forced attention upon better methods of coordinating
 the plans and the work of specialists and
executives. Where there are research men, staff
men and operating men, a close mutual understanding
 and counseling among them has been found necessary,
 whether it is effected by formally arranged
conferences and committees, or, as one executive
put it, ‘by a great use of shoe leather.’