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The articles reprinted here have been chosen to show how management’s thinking and practice have progressed from the lingering paternalism of the twenties, through the confused antagonism of the thirties and the uneasy truce of the forties, to the human relations furor of the fifties and the new emphasis of the sixties on actual results in terms of goals set and met. Needless to say, while these pages surely reflect the major discoveries and enthusiasm of the past 45 years, they could not possibly have covered in detail all the fads or even all the valuable new tools and techniques that have been developed in the interim. For the same reason many of the earlier papers have had to be condensed somewhat. Nevertheless, the editors feel, the book as a whole bears out its title, it does indeed trace the evolution of a relationship
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