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...Jackson Grayson, chairman of the American Productivity Center, sees the roots of the problem reaching back even further. Says he: "American management has for 20 years coasted off the great research and development gains made during World War II, and constantly rewarded executives from marketing, financial and legal sides of the business while it ignored the production men." Robert Hayes and William Abernathy, two Harvard professors of production and operations management, quoted Grayson's strictures in the Harvard Business Review and added: "Our managers still earn generally high marks for their skill in improving short-term efficiency, but their...
...American Image of Russia, 1917-1977 edited by Benson L. Grayson (Ungar; $14.50). "Liberty is precious," wrote Vladimir Lenin. "So precious that it must be rationed." The statement is illustrated by the book and the fair...
...Jackson Grayson Jr., chairman of the American Productivity Center
What makes re-entry all the more difficult is that the Viet veteran has been stereotyped as angry, alienated, semiliterate and drug-prone. Some veterans feel that their experience in Viet Nam makes prospective employers wary. Says Bruns Grayson, who went on to Harvard and Oxford after five years in Viet Nam: "What I find offensive is the feeling that all Viet Nam vets are latent psychos or, like Jon Voight in Coming Home, sensitive and guilt-ridden. These are comic-book caricatures." Charles Figley, a Purdue University psychologist who wrote a study of his fellow Viet Nam veterans, agrees...
...size firms. Little-known Lincoln Electric of Cleveland gives productivity bonuses that come close to equaling regular wages. One result is that productivity has risen so fast that since 1934 prices for Lincoln's products have increased only one-fifth as much as the consumer price index. Professor Grayson sees that as good proof of his thesis that higher productivity can whip inflation...