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Education is important for workers in an entirely worker-owned factory. William Whyte, professor of Sociology and Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University, said yesterday during a speech at the School of Education...
...Whyte, chairman of the Cornell Research Program for New Patterns of Worker Participation, spoke to a small gathering at Longfellow Hall on the "Educational Implications of Employee Ownership," as part of a series of seminars on education and public policy...
...People have generally not thought beyond the transfer of ownership," Whyte said, adding that education for both managers and workers is important if an employee-owned company is to survive...
...James Whyte Black of London's University College, a pharmacologist as well as physician, worked with chemists at Smith Kline & French Laboratories to find what are awkwardly called H2-receptor blockers. After testing over 700 compounds, they finally hit upon cimetidine. At present, their discovery has been approved for up to only eight-weeks' use by duodenal-ulcer patients and by victims of a few other diseases causing excessive acid secretion, like gastrinoma (tumors of the pancreas). Under the brand name Tagamet, the new drug should be available (on prescription only) by Labor Day. Cost of a four...
...gamesman in most corporations is troubled, and therein lies the chief difference between Maccoby's findings and those of William H. Whyte Jr. 20 years ago in The Organization Man or Douglas McGregor in his 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise. For all his success, the gamesman admits that his work does little to stimulate what Maccoby calls the "qualities of the heart": loyalty, a sense of humor, friendliness, compassion. Managers may display those qualities at home, but the games executives play do not encourage heart to develop in the office...