ABSTRACT
By the end of 1954, interviews had been conducted with about 300 members of the Company individually and in groups. These interviews—the results of which the social-analyst had been authorized to use in his reports to the Works Council—had been arranged by the Staff Committee members, by the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen’s Branch, by managers concerned with specific problems of organization, and by individual members with a personal interest in time-span and ranking. From these interviews had come an analysis of their views of their own jobs and, in some cases, of subordinate jobs—about 450 in all—covering practically every type of work done in the Company: manufacturing, sales, research, production engineering, drawing and design, estimating, planning, production control, costing, accounting and invoicing, building maintenance, civil engineering, inspection, purchasing and dispatch, personnel, training, and secretarial.
