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MANCHESTER.—A group of large firms engaged in the principal industries of the Manchester district has offered to the governing body of the School of Technology the sum of 3000l., spread over a period of five years, towards the cost of establishing a new department of industrial management. The Manchester Education Committee has recommended that this gift be accepted and expressed its high appreciation of the donors' public spirit. It is proposed that a lecturer shall be appointed for this period of five years at a salary of 600l., to conduct research in the subject of industrial management, to organise a new department, to lecture to members of the University and to the public, and to assist industrial concerns in the solution of management problems. To make doubly sure that the department shall keep in close touch with practice, a number of managers, directors, scientific experts, and others who have had special experience or are responsible for important innovations, will be invited to deliver public lectures, for which they are being offered substantial fees. These lectures should be of assistance not only to future managers, but also to those already in that position; they will strengthen the idea that management is a science, and that every manager is, or should be, something of a scientific researcher.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 100, 497–498 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100497a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/100497a0