The United States safety movement and Howard Pyle

Abstract

The health and safety of members of organizations is a long‐standing human resource issue of interest to those in the field of management. While its history is long and complicated, one part of that history – the role of Howard Pyle – is outlined here. The voluntary safety movement approach to this issue was supported strongly by Howard Pyle. A former radio station announcer who became Governor of the State of Arizona, Pyle was extremely active in the voluntary safety movement. In addition to becoming Governor of Arizona, he rose to be Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States, President of the National Safety Council, and first Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health. His contributions should not go unremembered.

Economic incentives and small firms: Does it pay to be green?

“…The traditional view of the corporation is that green expenditures will have a negative effect on firm performance (Friedman, 1970;Mathur and Mathur, 2000;Supreme Court of Michigan, 1919;Walley and Whitehead, 1994). However, recent greenoriented research has argued that this is not necessarily the case for large firms (Aragó n- Correa, 1998;Hills et al, 2004;Rinehart and Van Fleet, 2000;Sharma and Vredenburg, 1998). The study will test if the more recent green-oriented research also applies to small firms.…”

Adjusting to the unexpected

“…Author(s), year published Category Brief description Gazell (2000) Person Drucker on effective management in the public sector Dahlin (2000) Person Drucker on management in the federal government Garofalo (2000) Person Critique of Drucker's writings on governmental reform Guy and Hitchcock (2000) Person Critique of Drucker's transfer of effective management principles from private to public sector Hays and Russ-Sellers (2000) Person Drucker's citation rate in public administration literature Bowman and Wittmer (2000) Person Drucker's neglect of ethical and quality issues O' Connor (2000) Person Analysis of Follett's writings Mendenhall et al (2000) Person Follett on chaos and complexity Schilling (2000) Person Follett and stakeholder theory Ryan and Rutherford (2000) Person Was Follett an individualist or collectivist? Graham (2000) Person L. Gilbreth's use of industrial relations and personnel management in the retail industry Nyland and Rix (2000) Person van Kleeck and L. Gilbreth's efforts to advance the interests of working women Fells (2000) Person Comparative analysis of Fayol to Hales, Kotter and Mintzberg Rinefort and Van Fleet (2000) Person Pyle's contributions to workplace health and safety Nyland (2000) Person Taylor, Clark and Wyatt on scientific management and working women Bix (2000) Event Women's Bureau films on scientific management, women workers and workplace safety in the 1920s and 1930s Oldenziel (2000) Event Scientific management and women workers from 1922 to 1994 Schacter (2000) Topic Applying scientific management to urban problems Albach and Bloch (2000) Topic Development of management as a science Reis and Pena (2001) Topic…”

“…Fells (2000) compared Fayol's elements of management to the more contemporary models of Hales, Kotter and Mintzberg, concluding that each of the four models, despite differences in terminology, was fundamentally equivalent or a subset of the other models. Rinefort and van Fleet (2000) discussed the many contributions of Pyle to worker safety and health. Nyland (2000) examined a book chapter written by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt whose observations demonstrated how unstandardized methods and poor working conditions hindered the productivity, and hence the pay, of working women.…”