Profile of a Union Leader

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Irving Bluestone, former vice-president of the United Auto Workers, is a different kind of labor leader. Bluestone's goal was to involve workers' input in management, to make the union greater and create more enlightened management. Bluestone worked to keep a strong union while at the same time maintaining a good relationship between management and labor. Bluestone thinks of the UAW as an organization committed to the dignity and welfare of its members. He is a company man, pragmatic, a skilled organizer, an optimist and a strong believer in the moral obligations of business to society's welfare. He is not a charismatic leader and often appears to others as too self-restrained. But he is admired by both management and labor, and has brought about a new outlook on work.

Management, Employee Relations, Social Responsibility, Unions, Bluestone, Irving

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Elsa Porter: Bureaucracy at its Best

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When Ella Porter became the United States Commerce Department's first woman assistant secretary, she was faced with an entrenched bureaucracy and a maze of rules and guidelines. She found she must work with powerful, high level male civil servants who learned that efficiency and creativity were not rewarded. Instead of proceeding in the way her predecessors had, or instituting a new management system, she created a more open system by listening to her employees and opening herself to criticism and support. It has been found that women who are more open, instead of being games players are generally more succesful. elsa Porter saw her own flaws and was able to create a more workable bureaucratic structure.

Bureaucracy, Biographies, Government Agency, Efficiency, National Government, Administration, Porter, Elsa

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Leadership and the Work Ethic

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To be successful, leaders must reflect the social character and work ethic of society. The Protestant ethic of the seventeenth century exalted work and discipline as Godly traits. By the late eighteenth century the individualistic, frugal craftsmen and farmers exemplified an independent spirit. In the nineteenth century the tough, daring, sometimes exploitative entrepreneur rose to the top. The modern technological period produced the somewhat bland organization careerists who evolved into enthusiastic games players in the sixties. No one is sure how the depressed seventies have affected leadership.

History, Ethics, Career development, Organizational behavior, Entrepreneur, Issues/Society

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