Review of The Psychology of Management

Abstract

Reviews the book, The Psychology of Management by L. M. Gilbreth (1918). This book was first published in 1914, reprinted two years ago without any revisions. Nevertheless the book still retains some peculiar features which characterize no other psychological work. They do not perhaps constitute any contribution to academic psychology, but they are entirely in harmony with the psychology of common sense and of everyday life. The author's work is typical of its time and serves to illustrate the infantile stage of psychology as a science at the time of his writing. While he "aims at no exhaustive study of psychology" in relation to industry, his book may be considered a valuable contribution to this particular field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)