Meet Our New Vice-President

Robert W. Lear
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Interfaces, 1985, vol. 15, issue 3, 12-14

Abstract: When I wrote this article in 1981, corporate interest in productivity was just beginning to perk. I felt confident that it would grow and enlarge, so I predicted that there would be lots more vice-presidents of productivity.This didn't happen. Why?The reason is, I believe, that corporations became so intensely and broadly interested in the whole subject of efficient management of their operations that it became a corporate-wide surge and not a staff fetish. Most companies I know are now greatly concerned with the cost effectiveness of their plants and the measures needed to bring them up to competitive equality or superiority. So, productivity is becoming an integrated part of the management function --- and I'm glad to see it happen.

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Date: 1985
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