ABSTRACT
So far the industrial enterprise has attempted on the whole to solve its problems of governmental and social organization by adapting preindustrial principles. These principles were simply taken for granted and retained. As for the Ford Motor Company, its management organization–or disorganization–resulted in a steady decline over the last twenty-five years from the position of leadership in its industry to third rank. The literature on management organization is growing by leaps and bounds, especially in this country; and it seems to be increasingly dedicated to the proposition that the proper study of mankind is organization. No industrial enterprise has as voluminous an "organization manual" as the Church has in the Canon Law–nor, alas, one as clear, as consistent and as intelligent.
