Dillard E. Bird

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Dillard Eugene Bird (October 8, 1906 – January 2, 1990)[1] was an American industrial and consulting engineer, founder and President of Dillard E. Bird Associates, consultants to management in Cincinnati, Ohio.[2] He was known as "veteran in the field of personnel administration,"[3] and as the 10th president of the Society for Advancement of Management from 1949 to 1951.[4]

Biography[]

Youth, education and early career[]

Bird was born in 1906 in Covington, Kentucky, son of Nora M. Bird (1874-1963).[5] He had obtained his AB from the University of Cincinnati in 1933 under Ralph C. Davis,[6] and his MBA from the Ohio State University in 1938.[7] In 1951 he also obtained his PhD at Ohio State with the thesis, entitled The relation of stabilization within the business organization to guarantee of work or wages.[8]

After his graduation Bird had joined the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania faculty, where he was placement officer in 1937[9] and Assistant Director of Student Personnel by 1939.[10] He also taught industrial management and industrial relations at Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, and was industry and government consultant in human relations.[11]

Further career and other work[]

Around 1943 Bird founded his own firm, Dillard E. Bird Associates, consultants to management in Cincinnati, Ohio.[11] Among others he was expert for the United States Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany in 1937,[9] the National Wholesale Druggists' Association in 1949,[12] and the SEE Foremanship Foundation in Dayton, Ohio in 1951.

One of his notable employees was the Carl Hartley Elliott, who was junior management consultant in 1947-48, and later professor and president of the Trine University. Since 1942 Bird also taught personnel administration and labor relations at the evening college of the University of Cincinnati.[11]

Bird was the 10th president of the Society for Advancement of Management from 1949 to 1951. He was the successor of Charles C. James, and was succeeded by .[13]

Family[]

Dillard Eugene Bird married Mary Carmichael Andrews, daughter of James H. M. Andrews and Esther McKinley (Bender) Andrews.[14] They had a son, Dillard Eugene Bird, Jr. (1941-2015).

Selected publications[]

  • Dillard Eugene Bird. Foremanship Training, Development, Methods: A Case Study. Master thesis University of Cincinnati, 1933.[6]
  • Bird, Dillard Eugene. Building human relations. Cincinnati, 1948[15]
  • Dillard E. Bird. The Development of Management Associations in Germany. 1949.
  • Dillard E. Bird. The relation of stabilization within the business organization to guarantee of work or wages. PhD thesis at Ohio State, 1951.
  • Dillard Eugene Bird. The Guarantee of Work and Wages. Ohio State University, 1953. (614 pp.)
Articles, a selection
  • Bird, Dillard E. Chapter operations manual. SEE Society for the Advancement of Management, 1948.[16]
  • Bird, Dillard E. Dillard E. Bird Associates, consultants to management. 1948.[17]
  • Bird, Dillard E. Survey of economic education. SEE Foremanship Foundation, Dayton, Ohio, 1951.[18]

References[]

  1. ^ sortedbyname, accessed 2017-09-27.
  2. ^ Modern Machine Shop, Volume 20. 1947. p. 246
  3. ^ The Cincinnati Enquirer, from Cincinnati, Ohio. January 14, 1946. p. 15.
  4. ^ Society for Advancement of Management, Proceedings : Society for Advancement of Management. Conference, 1949. p. 2.
  5. ^ Dillard Eugene Bird, Sr at findagrave.com. Accessed 2017-09-28
  6. ^ a b Ohio State University. Abstracts of Master's Theses. Nr. 26-30. 1937. p. 24
  7. ^ Ohio State University. Annual Report. 1939. p. 116
  8. ^ The American economic review, Volume 41. 1951. p. 823
  9. ^ a b University Placement Service of the University of Pennsylvania, University Placement Review, Volumes 9-12. 1937. p. 32
  10. ^ University of Pennsylvania. Directory of Officers, Faculty, Students, Departments. 1939. p. 15
  11. ^ a b c United States. Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany. Office of Labor Affairs. Visiting Expert Series. Nr. 1-15, 1947. p. 127
  12. ^ National Wholesale Druggists' Association (1949). N.W.D.A. Year Book. p. 110
  13. ^ S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, Volume 53, 1988. p. 40
  14. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1967. p. 367
  15. ^ U.S. Government Printing Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1948, 1948. p. 353
  16. ^ U.S. Government Printing Office, Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals, Volume 3, 1949. p. 20.
  17. ^ U.S. Government Printing Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1948, 1949. p. 33
  18. ^ U.S. Government Printing Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1951, 1952. p. 421
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