The Manager as a Person

words used in discussing the conduct of business undertak? ings are extremely imprecise. Administration is used in a half-a-dozen well authenticated meanings in this country, many of them mutually in? compatible. Similarly management is used for conducting enterprises of all kinds and shapes, of a process, of the body of knowledge and practice underlying the process and, with the prefix the, of those who carry out the process. The best anyone can do at the present is to be precise as to the meaning attached to the terms used in any particular discussion.1 With these words of warning from Lynn Urwick's Management Lectures, I have taken a rather arbitrary definition of management from Lawrence Apply, the admirable President of the American Man? agement Association and, adapting his definition, I arrive at the fact that a manager is one who has the responsibility for accomplishing re? sults through the efforts of other people. Naturally some person may have reason to want to extend this thought so that management is seen as a phase, manifestation or fractioning of the entrepreneurship func? tion. This is quite acceptable and certainly is insinuated in my discus? sion. Now when we speak of the manager as a person, we are again faced with a distinction. In talking of this person, my approach was first dic? tated by the Christmas allocution of Pope Pius XII in 1952 in which several direct references were made to the mechanization of mankind and the negation of personality. To expose myself, like the pastor who criticized his assistant for his sermons paraphrasing the Gospels, when he said, First you read the Gospel and then you improve upon it, I am inclined to paraphrase the references of the Holy Father. The re? cent statement by the Catholic Bishops of the United States on the dignity of man offered me the opportunity for a slightly different ap? proach based on the same foundation. In this statement there is noted: It has remained for our day to at? tempt to disregard human personality and to fortify such disregard with the force of legislation or the approbation of custom, as if a man were only a 'thing/ The present has been described as a rationally established inhumanity working with all the expedients of administra? tive and mechanical techniques

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