Factory Management: "The Inner Man Steps Out" 1951 General Electric Company (Patreon)

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"Tells the story of a supervisor who tries to follow standard rules for getting the best from his people. He finds however, that his efforts at human relations backfire on him. Explains that through the discovery of his own and other people's 'INNER MAN,' he learns what he has been doing wrong and why.

Producer: Henry Strauss. Screenplay: Dun Roman. Photography: William Steiner, A.S.C. Editing: Rogers Keene. Music: Morris Mamorsky. Supervisor for the General Electric Company: Ted S. Lisberger. Directed by: Robert Wilmot."

Originally a public domain film from the Library of Congress Prelinger Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.

The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_management

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Industrial management, as a field of Commerce & business administration, studies the structure and organization of industrial companies. It comprises those fields of business administration that are necessary for the success of companies within the manufacturing sector and the encompassing services (primarily operations management, marketing, and financial management)...

Term industrial company

The term industrial company is generally applied to a manufacturing firm that – contrary to a crafts business – produces consumer durables in factories from raw materials in mass and serial production (division of labour) using modern manufacturing machines.

History of industrial management

The precursor of the study field industrial management was factory management. It had a strong similarity with technical management and was geared towards the engineering fields. Parallel to this, there was also a factory management that was more in the area of business economics. This dealt with the organizational questions of factory and office administration as well as financial accounting, e.g. the factory bookkeeping and late also management accounting.

The term and the contents of present-day industrial management were strongly influenced by the establishment of MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 (renamed the Sloan School of Management in 1964 after its benefactor, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., MIT graduate and then-chairman of General Motors). MIT School of Industrial Management set itself the goal of educating the "ideal manager" through this (post)graduate management program.

Course of studies

Graduate programs in management draw on Sloan's idea and provide engineers with a strategic management education with a focus on production management, marketing, financial management, human resources as well as commercial law – supplemented by corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and sustainability topics. The primary goal is to enable students and professionals to take a holistic approach to industry management...