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AN important step forward in the co-ordination of the varied activities of the many societies connected in some way or other with the several phases of scientific management was taken on January 12, when a British Management Council was formed. After the highly successful sixth International Congress for Scientific Management, held in London during July 1935, a committee was set up under the chairmanship of Dr. E. F. Armstrong both to take all necessary action to ensure the proper representation of Great Britain at the next Congress, to take place in the United States in 1938, and to examine the factors involved in the formation of a national scientific management organization. A scheme of federation has been produced by this committee, and after discussion has met with provisional acceptance from the greater number of the associations concerned, numbering some thirty in all. The objects of the new Federal Council are: βTo ascertain and represent both nationally and internationally the views of those bodies concerned in Management in Great Britain, and in particular as its immediate object to enter into relations and to co-operate with similar bodies in other countries, and to act as the representative of its Constituent Members in International Congresses and other activities concerned with Management.β Lord Leverhulme has been elected as its first chairman, Dr. E. F. Armstrong as vice-chairman, Mr. G. R. Freeman as treasurer, and Mr. U. Baliol Scott as secretary. The new body is assured of the support and co-operation of the Federation of British Industries. It has an important function to fill and may be expected in time to exert a pronounced influence on the development of the functional management movement in Great Britain.
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Federal Council on Scientific Management. Nature 139, 147 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139147c0
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