Time and Motion Study Volume 9 Issue 1

Abstract

THE several hundred members who heard the thought‐provoking addresses delivered at the Harrogate conference of the British Institute of Management recently must have returned stimulated by much that was said. At the outset the American Ambassador reminded them that the big business tended to suffer from a certain complacency because it thought that operating efficiency could allow it to ignore the whips and spurs of competition, although he did not advocate cutting up the leviathans to nourish a lot of little fish for the sake of seeing them fight. Indeed, he thought the growth of mass markets meant that the creation of business organisations commensurate with catering for them was inevitable.

Citation

(1960), "Time and Motion Study Volume 9 Issue 1", Work Study, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 11-57. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048132