ABSTRACT

In the modern enterprise the worker is necessarily without any experience in the management of the enterprise's business. The managerial attitude can only result from managerial experience. The number of men who at any one time can acquire firsthand this managerial experience is necessarily limited. But the effect should permeate the entire plant. It is undoubtedly management's duty to manage; and management's proper function must be preserved. Its authority must be strengthened for management in this country today has been weakened in many areas to a point where it cannot efficiently discharge functions it is responsible for discharging. Understanding of management's problem and respect for its job cannot be communicated directly from management to worker. But the men in the self-government of the plant have themselves to perform management functions.