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Show Executive prowess indicators found in management research HARTFORD, Conn. -Clear indicators of success and failure, accepted by responsible people who are committed to measuring their own progress and achieving great things, can unleash human energy and creativity far beyond that now achieved by administrative practices, Dr. George S. Odiorne told New England personnel executives Tuesday night. Speaking at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Ceorge S. Odiorne, dean of the College of Business, said University research conducted over the past three years has confimed vital signs of executive competence and incompetence quite similar to the measurements of health and sickness in human beings. "The indicators have been applied in America's leading corporations for early warning signs of business and administrative ad-ministrative illness or to see the effects of curative business programs," said Dr. Odiorne. The Utah dean said without objectives in its major areas of operation, a firm often slips out of control, or worse, into the "dull gray look of mediocrity and apathy which causes mature people in its ranks to find only boredom and anxiety in their work. Odiorne cited the experiences of numerous corporations which have adopted the "management by objectives" approach as evidence of the validity of the University research. Dean Odiorne told the New England executives that "organizations in which the boss presumes to know everything, do everything, make every decision, solve every problem and have every new idea are limited in scope, have a poor track record for . long-run survival, and are terrible places to work. "Our research shows that employees usually reflect the view management has of them. In those shops where the boss presumes that people dislike work and avoid it, there is tight supervision over every activity and the results are disastrous both in terms of individual behavior and business success." i i |