Ordway Tead

Ordway Tead (10 September 1891 - 1973) was an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor of industrial relations and chair of the New York Board of Higher Education.

Biography

Tead was born in Sommerville, Massachusetts and attended Amherst College from where he graduated in 1912

After graduation Tead worked for Valentine, Tead & Gregg. In 1915 he married Clara Murohy, long term president of Briarcliff College. However in 1917 he accepted a position in the Bureau of Industrial Research, New York. Following the U.S.A.'s entry into the First World War he ran the War Department's employment management course at Columbia University.

Tead continued to teach there from 1920 to 1950 and was adjunct professor of industrial relations until 1956. From 1938 to 1953 he was chair of the New York Board of Higher Education, where in 1941 he was involved in sacking any faculty staff who belonged to a Communist, Fascist or Nazi organization.[1]

He was actively involved in book publishing both at McGraw Hill and Harper & Row and wrote 21 books himself.

Publications

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References

  1. Orbituary, New York Times, November 17, 1973

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