International Congress for Scientific Management

Abstract

AN International Congress for Scientific Management is to be held in London in 1935 and the Prince of Wales has consented to be its patron. The subjects for discussion include the introduction of management principles and practice in undertakings of various sizes, methods of controlling production by the comparison of actual results with forecasts, examples of the application of scientific management in problems of distribution, standardisation in agricultural development, methods of selection and training for higher administrative positions, and scientific management in the home. A meeting of the organising council of the Congress, under the chairmanship of Sir George Beharrel, was held recently at the offices of the Federation of British Industries and it was announced that a representative executive committee is being formed. It will be recalled that early in the year a manifesto on “The Management Factor in Industry” was issued over the signatures of many well-known men of science and others (NATURE, January 14, p. 52), in which the field surveyed was similar to that of the forthcoming Congress.