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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Whiting Williams Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Williams, Whiting | | | | Dates: | 1899-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Whiting Williams (1878-1976) was an author and lecturer in Cleveland, Ohio, who was an expert on labor and management problems and served as a corporate consultant on personnel issues and public relations. The collection consists of correspondence, autobiographical essays, magazine articles he authored, newspaper clippings, some items relating to his daughter Caroline, a family genealogy, and a will. The collection is useful in detailing Williams' attitudes about unions, management philosophy, and social psychology, and reveals the personal life of Williams as well. | | | | Call #: | MS 4261 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Williams, Whiting, 1878-1976. | Williams family. | Whiting family. | Industrial management. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Labor unions. | Working class -- Attitudes. | Social psychology. | Psychical research.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Lowell O. Mellen Papers
| | | | Creator: | Mellen, Lowell O. | | | | Dates: | 1929-1971 | | | | Abstract: | Lowell O. Mellen (1897-1993) was a business consultant in Cleveland, Ohio, who pioneered the training techniques of Training Within Industry (TWI) as a representative of the War Manpower Commission in the Northern District of Ohio during World War II. After the war, he was recruited by General Douglas MacArthur to train supervisors and workers in Japan in the techniques of Training Within Industry in order to quickly stabilize the Japanese economy by making its industrial base more efficient. Mellen's company, Training Within Industry, Inc., trained over one million supervisors and workers in Japan. Mellen's training programs in job instruction, job methods, job relations, problem solving, and job safety are credited as the foundation for industrial programs that stress continuous improvement and lean management. The collection consists of agreements, budgets, bulletins, certificates, contracts, correspondence, forms, histories, index card files, lists, manuals, notes, program descriptions, proposals, publications, reports, studies, training materials, and vouchers. | | | | Call #: | MS 5204 | | | | Extent: | 6.40 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Employees -- Training of | Industrial efficiency -- Japan | Industrial efficiency | Industrial management -- Japan | Industrial management | Industries -- Japan | Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952. | Mellen, Lowell O., 1897-1993 | United States. War Manpower Commission | World War, 1939-1945 -- War work.
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