Edward Northup Hay (1891 - 1958) was a businessman based in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He was for years the head
personnel
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officer for
First Pennsylvania Bank First Pennsylvania Bank was a bank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1782, it was for centuries the oldest bank in the United States until it was acquired by CoreStates Financial Corporation in 1989.
In the 1970s, First Pennsylvania o ...
in
Philadelphia. There, he was a mentor to
Isabel Briggs Myers, whom he taught test construction, scoring, validation, and statistics, and who went on to develop the
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
During World War II, Hay served as Deputy
Administrator
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for the
Office of Price Administration.
In 1943, he launched
Hay Group, a management
consultancy that focused on improving the personnel side of businesses, which he believed was a neglected and underdeveloped area. He wrote:
The human element in industry has not received adequate or sufficiently skillful attention. ... The most successful companies of the future will be the ones that take full advantage of improved personnel techniques.
In 1945, Hay got his first major contract, from
General Foods Corporation to study and evaluate 450 management jobs. He resigned from First Pennsylvania Bank and incorporated his company.
Hay died unexpectedly in 1958 at the age of 67. His company,
Hay Group, is still active.
References
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1958 deaths
1891 births