Modern Organization: An Exposition of the Unit System
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Chairman Lovett and his five presidents now perform with some degree of comfort the duties which killed that great genius, Edward H. Harri- man, who fell a victim to his own juggernaut of centralization. One of the temptations to which mankind has yielded from the beginning is to seek perpetual motion in administrative, as well as in physical, affairs. The hope has been that by some hocus pocus of a constitution, a scheme of government, or a chart of organ- ization, a self-perpetuating entity w...ould be set going to govern internal affairs for an indefinite period. The sociologist sees that systems survive only as they reflect the prog- ^82 MODERN ORGANIZATION ress of a people, whether that progress be in government, in administration, or in abil- ity to become self-reliant. A phase of this general tendency is seen in the segregation of the storekeeping function for large corpo- rations. "When irregularities develop, when waste is discovered, when ignorance of mate- rials and their conservation is manifest, the fallacious remedy usually proposed is to place this peculiar activity under the control of a special body of men expert in that one feature.
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