Review of Human Nature and Management

Abstract

Reviews the book, Human Nature and Management by Ordway Tead (1929). This interesting book purports to tell "how to use psychology in managerial work." It certainly makes numerous interesting suggestions along these lines, steers a sensible course through controversial regions and as far as can be observed commits no psychological fallacies. Its arrangement involved devoting the first half to an outline of psychology with much of the illustrative material drawn from industry and then in the later part making the approach from the industrial side. The desirability of this arrangement,--which characterizes many books on industrial and applied psychology,--is perhaps debatable, but that is another story. At any rate this dichotomy is not especially apparent in the present work and there is plenty of management and psychology in every chapter (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)