Educational Testing Service, 83
Effective Presentation course, 122 egalitarianism, suburbanites, 312
Eisenhower, Dwight D., vote in Levittown and Park Forest, 300
Eliot, Charles William, free-elective system, 94, 96
employers, resistance to unionization, 42
employment preferences, college seniors, 68–69, 74–75
“Employment Trends in 1955, 1956” (Endicott), 103 fn
Endicott, Frank S., 103;
“Employment Trends in 1955, 1956,” 103 fn
Engberg, Edward, 282 fn
Engelhard, Al, 293
Engelmann, Dr. Gerson, 370, 371; quoted, 355
engineering, influence of, 88
Engineering Education, Society for the Promotion of, 91
engineering schools, 90, 91
engineers, 89, 91, 104
England: class segregation in new towns, 308 fn; workers’ emancipation, 309 fn
English: communication skills, 93–94; vocationalizing, 99
English Thought and Literature from Bacon to Pope (Jones et al), 24 fn–25 fn
entertaining, executives’ attitude to, 154
entrepreneurship, aversion to, 68- 69
equilibrium, concept, 28–29
Erasmus, Desiderius, Praise of Folly, 25
“Ethical Calculus, The Invention of (Bredvold), 24 fn
ethics, scientifically determining, 28
ethics-of-equilibrium, 29
Evans, M. Catherine, 406 fn
executive: category, 143 fn; civic work, 148–149; culture, 149; ego, 150–156; hobbies, 149–150; leisure, 148; professionalization of, 75–76; qualities, 133–136; work load, 142–147
Executive, What Makes an (Ginzberg), 190 fn
Executive Suite (motion picture), 76
F
face-value technique, 40
“Fair Trade” laws, 19
Fairless Hills, Philadelphia, united church, 379
family living, school course, 390
Festinger, Leon, Social Pressures in Informal Groups, 346 fn
fiction: corporation wives, 259; shift from Protestant to Social Ethic, 243–263
Fifty Years in Wall Street (Clews), 16 fn
File, Quentin W., 409 fn
financial habits, suburbanites, 321–329
“Fireworks for Michelle,” quoted, 260
Florida State University, general-education program, 95
Flynn, Rev. Vernon, 371
Folly, Praise of (Erasmus), 25
Foote, Nelson N., “Social Mobility and Economic Advancement,” 278 fn
Ford Foundation: grants to scholars, 233; large-scale grants, 231; self-study groups, grants to, 224
Ford Motor Company, field training program, 126–127
foundations, projeetism, 230–240
Fourier communities, 7, 282
Fowler, N. C., The Boy, How to Help Him Succeed, quoted, 253 fn
Franklin, Benjamin, quoted, on spending, 17–18
free research, virtues of, 209
Freud, Sigmund, 22
friendship, web of, 330–349
From Here to Eternity (Jones), 257
Fromm, Erich, The Sane Society, 362
Fugger houses, Augsburg, 332
fundamental discovery, inevitable, 229
G
Gaither, Rowan, Jr., quoted, 231
Gamow, George, quoted, 228 fn–229 fn
Gans, Herbert, “The Origin and Growth of a Jewish Community in the Suburbs,” quoted, 375, 376
Gardner, Burleigh, quoted, 216
General Education in a Free Society (Harvard report), 94, 95
general-education movement, 94–95
General Electric Company: encouragement of individualism, 403; executives, moving frequency, 275; periodic transfers, 276; personality tests, 173; scientists, 208–211, 215; training program, 119–125
General Motors Corporation, employees’ attitude toward work, 127
Gengerelli, J. A.., quoted, 239
genius, the fight against, 205–217
geographic mobility, 269–270
Georgia, University of, 86
Gimbel Brothers, ad, quoted, 313 fn
Ginsburg, Dr. Sol W., quoted, 190 fn
Ginzberg, Eli, What Makes an Executive, 190 fn
Glazer, Nathan, quoted, 376
God and Man at Yale (Buckley), 65
good life, expression of idealism,
good-life standard, upgrading, 316, 317, 319
Goodrich, H. B., Origins of American Scientists, quoted, 92
Green Belt Cities (Osborn), 308 fn
group: authorship, 219–221; behavior regularities, 330; creative vehicle, 7, 47, 51–52; disciplining vehicle, 384; dynamics, 48, 57, 58; expediters, 55; leaderless, 54–55; responsiveness, 353
group averages, fitting outstanding man, 198
group contagion, exploiting, 316
Group Development, National Training Laboratory in, 54, 56
group leader, resource person, 54
group life, big corporation, 131
Group-Thinkometer, 56
group way, executives’ attitude, 152–154
group work, preoccupation with, 46–47
grouping, functional and incidental, 50
Guggenheim Foundation, grants to individual research, 232
H
Harrington, John Walker, “Otten-
hausen’s Coup,” 249
Harvard Business School, 85, 162–163, 401
Harvard University, free-elective system, 94–95
Harwald Group-Thinkometer, 56
Hathaway, Starke R., 407 fn
Hatt, Paul K., “Social Mobility and Economic Advancement,” 278 fn
Hattery, Lowell H., Teamwork in Research, 227
Hawthorne, Illinois, Western Electric plant study, 33–35
Hayek, F. A., The Counter-Revolution of Science, 23 fn
Herberg, Will, 375
hierarchy of skills, 40
High Noon (motion picture), 257, 257 fn
Hobbes, Thomas, 25
Hodgins, Eric, 240; Blandings’ Way, 161
Holton, Gerald, “On the Duality and Growth of Physical Science,” quoted, 226
homogeneous environment, differences, 312–313
Horgan, Paul, “Unexpected Hero,” 256
How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling (Bettger), 253
How Our Business System Operates (HOBSO), 121 fn
How Supervise? (File), 409 fn
Hoyt, G. C., “The Life of the Retired in a Trailer Camp,” 319
Hughes, Everett, 364
Hughes, Rev. Joseph, 371
human relations: doctrine, 44; problem, 400–401; science of, 24
Human Resources and Advanced Training, Commission on, 83, 84 fn
humanities: bias against, 104; decline of, 79–81, 84 fn, 92; engineering schools, 90
Hutchins, Robert, 90 Hutchison, Francis, 25
I
ideology, organization man, 4
inanimate, false personalization of, 399 fn
income level, suburbia, living up to, 317–318
income tax, effect on work, 144–145
Independent School Bulletin, 98
individual and society, conflict between, 400
individualism: American worship, 5; central issue, 11, 14; distrust of, 131–137; encouragement of, 403; extreme, 396; philosophical, 12–13; Protestant and Social Ethics, 9; Suburban constraints, 330–365
Industrial Relations Center, University of Minnesota, 133 fn
Industrial Revolution, 16, 33, 35, 39, 41; Second, 25–26
industrial scientists, study of outstanding, 207–208
industrial worker, rootlessness, 33
Industry, Work and Authority in (Bendix), 253 fn
industry-college conferences, 106–108
Industry Psychology, Inc., 174
insurance jobs, lack of interest in, 75
intelli
gence tests, 172
intellectual revolt, 20
interest rates, suburbanites, 325
International Business Machines: industrial scientists, 208; interchangeable executives, 276
“International Problems, On Methods of the Social Sciences in Their Approach to” (Borberg), 30 fn
involvement with others, executives’ attitude to, 154–155
J
Jahoda, Dr. Marie, 274 fn
James, William, 20, 21, 23
Jamie, Wallace, quoted, 111
jet engine, development, 216, 223
Jewish community, Park Forest, 374–376
“Jewish Community in the Suburbs, The Origin and Growth of a” (Gans), 375 fn
job change surveys, 162–165
Johns Hopkins University, professional-school movement, 96
Jones, Richard F., 24 fn–25 fn
Junge Arbeiter von Heute, Der (Bednarik), 67 fn
Jungk, Robert, 31; Tomorrow Is Already Here, 399 fn
K
keeping down with the Joneses, 313
Kelley, Prof. William T., 88
Kelly, Dan, Drexelbrook social activities, 290–291
Keppel, Frederick, 238
Kerr, Clark, quoted, 46
Kerr, Walter, quoted, 246 fn
Kibbutz, Life in a (Weingarten), 293
kindergarten applicants, screening tests, 385 fn–386 fn
Klein Institute for Aptitude Testing, 175
Klutznick, Philip, Park Forest community, 282, 291–293, 321, 366
Knapp, R. H., Origins of American
Scientists, quoted, 92
Kodachrome, invention, 216
Kubie, Lawrence, quoted, 183–184
L
Labor, A Philosophy of (Tannenbaum), 41
labor leaders, work load, 145–146
Lamb, Charles, 99
Landon, Robert C., quoted, 128
Langmuir, Irving, 207, 209
lawns, influence on friendships, 344–345
leadership training, 295–296
Lederle Laboratories, industrial scientists, 208
Leinberger, Chaplain Hugo, Park Forest United Protestant Church, 366–370, 371, 378
leisure, creating more, 18
“Leisure Class, The New” (Michelon), 319 fn
Lentz, Theodore F., 408 fn
Lepley, William M., 406 fn
Lerner, Max, quoted, 279
Levin, Arnold, quoted, 363, 364
Levittown, Long Island, New York: Republican votes, 300; resident turnover, 319
Levittown, Pennsylvania: age distribution, 342 fn; denominational backgrounds (table), 368; Episcopal Church seats, 377; income differences, 317; modifications of house design, 312; package suburb, 280; political unification, 291 fn; shopping center, 316–317; tastes, changes in, 301; united church, 378–379;
liberal arts: business bias against, 102–105; current estate, 90, 96–98
life, outgoing, 350–365 life-adjustment curriculum, high school, 387–388
“life cycle” community, 318–319
life insurance, suburbanites, 321
“Life of the Retired in a Trailer Camp, The” (Hoyt), 319 fn
Likert, Rensis, quoted, 57, 401
Lindzey, Gardner, 410 fn
loneliness, fear of, 348
Lost Lady, A (Cather), 271 fn
loyalties, divided, 45–46
loyalty, company, 131, 161–162, 165
luxury, becoming a necessity, 314
Lynd, Robert and Helen, Middletown, 68; quoted, 306
M
Man, science of, 23–25, 28, 31
Man Called Peter, A (motion picture), 254
Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (Wilson), 131, 251; quoted, 132, 132 fn
Management and the Worker (Roethlisberger and Dickson), 33 fn
managerial ideology, new, 44
manipulation, people, 29–30
Mankind, The Proper Study of (Chase), 33 fn
Marquand, J. P.: Melville Goodwin USA, 258; Point of No Return, 39 fn, 271 fn
Martin, Jean, 282 fn
mass communication, scientism, 32
mass testing, personality, 171, 175, 178
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, curriculum, 91, 99–100
Mastery of Fate, 253
mathematics, solving problem of society, 25
Maurer, Herrymon, 278 fn
Mayo, Elton, 45; group cohesiveness, 43; Hawthorne experiment, 33–34, 36–38, quoted, 35, 36; union as a social group, 41
McCarthy issue, 65
McClure’s magazine, 249, 250
McConnell, T. R., 406 fn
McDade, Thomas, 303 fn
McKinley, J. Charnley, 407 fn
McMurry, Robert N., quoted, 199 fn–200 fn
Mediocre, League of the, 200
melting pot, suburbia, 300, 310
Melville Goodwin USA (Marquand), 258
Men in Business (Miller), 277 fn
Mental Measurements Yearbook, The Fourth (Buros), 189 fn
Merck & Company, Inc., industrial scientists, 208
metropolitan centers, process of replacement, 274
Miami University, business school, 87
Michelon, L. C, “The New Leisure Class,” 319 fn
Michigan State University, English courses, 93
Middle Ages: belongingness, 32–33, 41; discipline by social codes, 35
middle-class line, suburbia, 306
Middletown (Lynd), 68; quoted, 306
migrants, interstate, 269–270
Miller, James G., quoted, 28
Miller, William, Men in Business, 277 fn
minister, primary importance of, 379–380
Minnesota, taconite communities chaplaincy program, 371 fn
Minnesota T-S-E Inventory (Evans and McConnell), 406 fn
mixed marriages, Park Forest, 310
mobility, self-perpetuating, 275
modernism and traditionalism, opposition between, 97
Moe, Henry Allen, 232
Monsanto Chemical Company, research workers, 214, 215
morale and productivity, relationship, 57, 401
motivation research, 17 fn
Musser Forests’ Catalogue, quoted, 289
Myrdal, Gunnar, An American Dilemma, 29
N
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), vocational education, 107
National Education Association, 98
Naval Personnel, Bureau of, “Conference Sense,” handbook, quoted, 54
Naval Research, Office of, research contracts, 218, 219
neighborliness, conflict between types, 335
New Thought movement, 252, 253, 253 fn
New York University, public relations major, 86
Newburyport, Massachusetts: population mobility, 272–273; study, 38–40; upper class, 311
Newcomer, Mabel, The Big Business Executive, 279 fn
1984 (Orwell), 262–263
nondirective counseling, 36–37
non-well-rounded man, 141–150
normalcy, quest for, 397–398
norms, based on group scores, 197
O
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), testing program, World War II, 186–187
Ohio State University, psychology courses, 93
“Olympian Cowboy, The” (Schein), 257 fn
Oneida community, 282
Oregon, University of, degree in advertising, 87
Organization, deifying, 13
Organization transients, 267–280, 295
Orlans, Harold, Utopia, Ltd., 308, 348 fn; quoted, 349 fn
Orwell, George, 1984, 262–263
Osborn, F. J., Green Belt Cities, quoted, 308 fn
“Ottenhausen’s Coup” (Harrington), 249–250
overwork, attitude toward, 131–133
Owen communities, 7
Owens, W. A., “A Valida
tion Study of the Worthington Personality History Blank,” 189 fn
Oxtoby, Toby, “Distribution of Ability of Students Specializing in Different Fields,” 84 fn
P
Paducah, Kentucky, chaplaincy program, 371
parenthood, suburban groups, 355
Paris, École Polytechnique, 25
Park Forest, Illinois: behavior patterns, 332; Catholic church, 373; class structure, 310; community study, 281–297; criteria of status, 299; denominational backgrounds (table), 368; home-selling advertisements, 284, 285 fn–286 fn; income, rate of increase, 307 fn; Jewish community, 374–376; Negroes, admission of, 311; party patterns, 337–342; pioneer settlers, 310–311; privacy, lack of, 351; religious preference survey, 367, 379; rents, 299; Republican votes, 300; residents, 283 fn; school system, 382–392; shopping center, 316; turnover of residents, 303; Unitarian church, 372; United Protestant Church, 366–372, 379
“Park Forest, Birth of a Jewish Community” (Gans), 376 fn
Park Forest Reporter:headlines, quoted, 294; meeting report, quoted, 386 fn; social notes, 337
Park Merced, San Francisco: children’s influence on family friendships, 342; package suburb, 280; social activity, 290
participation, suburbanites, 359–361
Pascal, Blaise, 151
Patterns (Serling), 251
Patterson, Cecil, quoted, 190
Peale, Norman Vincent, 253; quoted, 254
Peck, R. F., “Personnel Assessment, New Technique for,” 189 fn
Pennsylvania, University of, business school, effect of, 85
Pennsylvanian, The Daily, quoted, 85
Personal Audit, The (Adams and Lepley), 406 fn
personal counseling, demand among suburbanites, 379
personal morals, suburbanites, 356
personal-social development, 95
Personality Inventory (Bernreuter), 405 fn
personality test, composite, 180–181
personality tests, 8, 9, 13, 38, 171, 173–179, 182, 184; how to cheat on, 405–410
Personnel, quoted, 211
Personnel Assessment, New Technique for (Peck and Worthington), 189 fn
personnel changes, surveys, 162–163
personnel people, ratio to other employees, 133 fn
“Personnel Practices in Industrial Laboratories” (Steele), 211
personnel testing, 171
personnel work, seniors’ preferences, 74–75
Ph.D. degrees, trend, 81, 82
Philadelphia: air-conditioner ownership, 315; replacement process, 274, 274 fn; row-house neighborhoods, study, 305
“Physical Science, On the Duality and Growth of” (Holton), 226
Piore, E. N., 219
Pittenger, Norman, quoted, 66
play areas, influence on community life, 343
Point of No Return (Marquand), 39 fn, 271 fn