Ordway Tead (10 September 1891 – November 1973) was an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor of industrial relations at Columbia University..
The purpose of this brief guide is to introduce you to the work of Ordway Tead.
Although Tead was well respected and had a considerable following, his ideas have not been comprehensively researched by contemporary students of management theory and leadership. After some searching, one finds only the brief essay on Tead that appears in Walter Mingo's Handbook of International Management (BUS HD62.4.T47), p.274 and Arthur Bedeian’s “Ordway Tead” In L.
F. Urwick and W. B. Wolf (Eds.), The Golden Book of Management, rev. ed.
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New York: AMACOM, 1984. Pp. 389-392. You are encouraged to explore Tead's ideas directly by going to the books and articles found in the Western Libraries that are listed below.
For biographical information see the obituary from the New York Times that is provided below.
Additional material is also found in the 1942 volume of Current Biography which is available in the DBW Reference Collection (CT100.C8). The "Foreward" to Administration: Its Purp