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...industry gets into the Common Market, American executives are being thrown into increasingly intimate contact with Europe's managerial class-and are finding it a different breed. European industry, reports University of Wisconsin Professor David Granick. is run by a species of businessman almost extinct in the U.S.-men bound by strict traditions of social class, aloof toward subordinates, and profoundly skeptical of the U.S. notion that corporate management is a separate branch of knowledge that can be learned in business school...
...most of Europe, reports Granick in his new book. The European Executive (Doubleday; $4.95), a man's social background and schooling largely determine whether he can hope to reach the top in business. In France, an executive who aspires to head a major corporation must not only be a man of broad general culture but should also hold an engineering degree from Paris' blue-ribbon Ecole Polytechnique. (Of 15 top French corporation chiefs interviewed by Granick, eight were Polytechnique graduates.) Ideally, a French executive should "parachute" into business only after several years in the higher ranks...
Vladimir F. Babbitt of Nadir, U.S.S.R., clings to status by his clean fingernails with a tenacity that makes many of his U.S. counterparts seem like beatniks by comparison. In Author Granick's "study of the organization man in Russian industry," it almost seems as if the Bolsheviks, having failed to lick the bourgeoisie, had decided to join them...
Although this may be taken as a joke against both sides, Author Granick (who has taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and is now at the University of Glasgow on a Fulbright grant) has catalogued the Soviet Org Man's habits and habitat with stern scholarship; his book has more graphs than laughs. But the irony is still there-the rublerouser in his square suit by Hart Schaffner and especially Marx, concerned about work schedules, procurement, and the problem of keeping down with the Joneses...
...Wheel Is a Wheel. Granick's typical top-organization man has a family income of about 65,000 rubles a year, roughly $6,500 a year in U.S. purchasing power. (His U.S. equivalent makes about $25,000; but as the purchasing power of the ruble varies for different commodities and since education and medical care are virtually free, the figures tell only part of the story.) The Red executive earns his ulcer by worry over matters strangely similar to those that furrow the balding brow of the U.S. junior tycoon. One significant difference: not the stockholders' meeting...