Auschwitz, USA: A Comparative Study in Efficiency and Human Resources Management: How the Nazis' Final Solution Annihilated the Jews in Europe and How ... Our Intelligence and Humanity in America - Softcover

Huer, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761851879 ISBN 13: 9780761851875

Publisher: Hamilton Books, 2010

Synopsis

In the last hundred years of industrial advancement, a great deal of scientific progress has been made in the field of efficiency studies. Known as human resources management among those who study these things, the main quest has always been how to control human thoughts and actions so that everything works to the maximum benefit of those who control these human resources. Accordingly, the most "efficient" system is one that controls the human resources by eliminating the human part and turning them into pure resources. In other words, their ultimate organizational goal is to transform people into things. This is the quest of all efficiency experts and human resources managers and what is commonly called organizational behavior. This book is about the two best historical examples of such "efficiently-run" resource management.

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About the Author

Jon Huer received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1975 and is professor of sociology at the University of Maryland University College. He has written a dozen books of social criticism, including The Wages of Sin,Tenure for Socrates, and also The Dead End, which TIME Magazine's Lance Morrow called "an important and often brilliant book."

Edition details

• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761851879
• ISBN 13: 9780761851875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 138