Perspectives in Defense Management

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U.S. Industrial College of the Armed Forces., 1967
 

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Page 47 - The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play or rest. 2. External control and the threat of punishment are not the only means for bringing about effort toward organizational objectives. Man will exercise self-direction and self-control in the service of objectives to which he is committed.
Page 47 - The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can. 2. Because of this human characteristic of dislike of work, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, threatened with punishment to get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of organizational objectives.
Page 47 - The average human being learns, under proper conditions, not only to accept but to seek responsibility. 5. The capacity to exercise a relatively high degree of imagination, ingenuity, and creativity in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population.
Page 32 - But even more importantly, we need the capability of placing in any critical area at the appropriate time a force which, combined with those of our allies, is large enough to make clear our determination and our ability to defend our rights at all costs and to meet all levels of aggressor pressure with whatever levels of force are required.
Page 59 - President believes that it is vital to the welfare of our people that this Nation maintain developmental work and the nucleus of a producing aircraft industry capable of rapid expansion to keep the peace and meet any emergency.
Page 32 - ... ability to defend our rights at all costs and to meet all levels of aggressor pressure with whatever levels of force are required. We intend to have a wider choice than humiliation or all-out nuclear action.
Page 57 - ... services obtainable from commercial or industrial sources. In compliance with the Government's general policy of relying on the private enterprise system to supply its needs, the Army operates commercialindustrial-type activities only when it can be clearly demonstrated that private enterprise cannot perform the service or provide the products necessary to meet current and mobilization requirements, or that operation by the Government is more economical, or is necessary in the execution of the...
Page 47 - Douglas McGregor, The Human Side of Enterprise (New York: McGrawHill Book Co., Inc...
Page 58 - In 1950 there was no ammunition industry for the production of metal components. Our reserve plants for the production of powder and explosives, and for the loading and assembly of finished ammunition were far from being in a state of immediate readiness for production. The reestablishment of an ammunition industry meant bringing new producers into the program, which naturally introduced additional complications and factors of delay. MUCH PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT REQUIRED Maximum effort has been devoted...

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