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, adjunct professor of industrial relations at

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, chair of the New York Board of Higher Education, and first president of the Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) in 1936–37.''S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal,'' Volume 53, 1988. p. 40

Biography

Tead was born in Sommerville,

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and attended Amherst College from where he obtained his AB 1912. In 1915 he married Clara Murohy, long term president of Briarcliff College. After his graduation he served as fellow of the Amherst College from 1912 to 1914. In 1915 he co-founded Valentine, Tead & Gregg, an industrial consultants' firm in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1917 he accepted a position in the Bureau of Industrial Research in

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he ran the

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's employment management course at

. Tead continued to teach at Columbia University from 1920 to 1950 and was adjunct professor of

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until 1956. From 1938 to 1953 he was chair of the New York Board of Higher Education, where in 1941 he was involved in sacking any faculty staff who belonged to a Communist, Fascist or Nazi organization. In the year 1936-37 Tead served as first president of the Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) in 1936-37, where he was succeeded by William H. Gesell. He was actively involved in book publishing both at

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and

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and wrote 21 books himself.

Publications

* Tead, Ordway.
Instincts in industry, a study of working-class psychology
'. 1918 * Tead, Ordway, and Henry Clayton Metcalf.
Personnel administration: its principles and practice
'. No. 18. McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1920. * Tead, Ordway. ''The art of leadership.'' (1935). * Tead, Ordway. ''The art of administration.'' (1951). * Tead, Ordway. ''Human nature and management''. Arno Press, 1977. ;Articles, a selection * Tead, Ordway. "Trade Unions and Efficiency," ''American Journal of Sociology'', Vol.22, No.1. (July 1916), p. 30-37. * Tead, Ordway. "The War's Effects on English Trade Unions," ''The Journal of Political Economy'', Vol.26, No.2, (Feb. 1918), p. 125-135. * Tead, Ordway. "The British Reconstruction Programs," ''Political Science Quarterly'', Vol.33, No.1. (Mar. 1918), p. 56-76.* * Tead, Ordway. "The Problem of Graduate Training in Personnel Administration," ''The Journal of Political Economy'', Vol.29, No.5. (May 1921), p. 353-367 * Tead, Ordway. "Autobiographical essay" in Finkelstein, L. (ed.) ''Thirteen Americans: Their Spiritual Autobiographies'', Institute for Religious and Social Science, 1953, pp. 15–30

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