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...your issue of January 22, 1964, under the head of The Crime, you reproduce three sentences from the 1962 edition of my How Russia is Ruled which describe the Soviet factory director's job in language very close to that used by David Granick in his The Red Executive published in 1961. Whether so intended or not, the clear implication is that I have borrowed Mr. Granick's formulation without acknowledgement...
...hire and how much he should pay them. He receives allocation orders for the materials and fuels he needs, and there is little he can buy without these orders. Management's job is to produce the planned output--and more if possible--with the inputs given to it. David Granick, "The Red Executive...
Britain's businessmen, says Granick, are regarded more or less as second-string civil servants. This lack of prestige, together with moderate salaries and no stock options, has traditionally discouraged the ablest graduates of Britain's public schools and universities from managerial careers. Consequently, fewer than one-third of Britain's top executives today have a university degree, and a surprising number are poor boys up from the industrial ranks...
...Perquisites. Contrary to the general impression, Granick found that European executives work at least as long hours as their U.S. counterparts-and are no better paid. On average, the vice president of a medium-sized European company draws only six to nine times as much salary as a factory hand. But there are other perquisites. The Continental executive very likely enjoys a two-hour lunch and the use of a company car. He is actively discouraged from spending his leisure time on charity drives or community projects. And in France and Belgium a junior executive is seldom expected to live...
...European managerial system is apt to affront the U.S. businessman, but before the American congratulates himself too much, Granick suggests, he should consider the track record of European executives. Discounting the effects of the two World Wars, Granick calculates that ever since 1900, per capita economic expansion has been faster in West Germany, France and Britain than it has been...