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AT the fifth sections meeting of the Conference of the British Institute of Management which took, place at Chonville in May 1949, the question of whether tnere is need for standard terminology and nameiclature in management was discussed. In the opening paper Mr. Winston Rogers, head of the Department of Management at Acton Technical College, stressed the need for tieflpiinology to be standardized as soon as possible although, at the same time, he recognized that the freezing of terminology at too early a stage in the development of scientific management would lead to difficulties. Among the people who would immediately ben'efit by this standardization would be authors, technical -editors of publishing houses, industrial education officers and lecturers in management subjects. Once the need for standardized terminology had been admitted, it would be necessary to consider the five following points : the criteria which any term must fulfil ; the nature of the contemplated standardization ; the most desirable province for preliminary exploitation; the composition of the team of investigators ; the authority responsible for the enforcement of the standardized terminology. Mr. Rogers examined each point in turn, and after considerable discussion it was agreed that the British Institute of Management should be asked to examine existing terms, to publish then current meanings and to encourage standard usage whenever possible. Efforts should be made to extend this work to the international field, after initial attempts in the English-speaking countries.
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Terminology in Industry. Nature 164, 1033 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/1641033c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1641033c0