Total Quality Management

[Sassy]

Total Quality Management or TQM is taught throughout the Veteran's Administration hospitals - the following 2 part article was interesting to me because I didn't realize that management philosophy was introduced in 1951...

The Management Plan
(part 2) "At the same time that Hitch was in England, Peter Drucker moved from Frankfurt (where he received a doctorate in international law) to England and began working for an insurance company. Drucker then moved to the U.S. and later became a professor of management at New York University in 1950. The next year (1951), Armand Feigenbaum introduced the term Total Quality Management (TQM) in his book QUALITY CONTROL. W. Edward Deming would become perhaps the chief promoter of TQM, and Drucker would become known as the "Father of Modern Management," describing how humans are to be managed across all sectors of society."

This is from part 1 (I read part 2 before I read part 1)   

"While they were planning these activities in the U.S., in France in the early 1800s a "philosopher-king" St. Simon was proposing a universal association of all men in an industrial feudalism with workers under the control/management of a self-appointed elite. Ludwig von Westphalen taught these principles to his son-in-law, Karl Marx, who was paid by the League of the Just (an outgrowth of the Parisian Outlaws League) to write THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. The philosopher-kings wanted Marxist Communism ultimately as a dialectical antithesis to Capitalism (thesis), synthesized into a World Socialist Government (Pierre Leroux actually coined the word "Socialism").

The Socialist Society planned by St. Simon would be "scientific" in nature. And the "science" would be called "sociology," a term coined by St. Simon's secretary, Auguste Comte around 1838. In 1901, the "Father of American Sociology," Edward Alsworth Ross, in his book SOCIAL CONTROL would reveal that social checks and stimuli "are managed by a rather small knot of persons... the Elite.... Judgment may be moulded as well as the will and the feelings." In society, people's work functions, values, etc., were to be "managed" by an elite in a new "Religion of Humanity" that would unite all religions in service to "Humanity."

Comte explained this system in a 6-volume set titled POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY between 1830-1842. And on October 19, 1851 he closed a series of lectures titled "The History of Humanity" with the following statement: "In the name of the Past and the Future, the servants of Humanity – theoreticians and practitions – come forward to claim as their due the general direction of this world, in order to construct at length the true Providence, moral, intellectual, and material; excluding once for all from political supremacy all the different servants of God – Catholics, Protestants, or Deists – as at once belated and a source of trouble." Comte developed his Positive Philosophy into a SYSTEM OF POSITIVE POLITY, the title of a 4-volume set by Comte from 1851-1857. In this system, collective Humanity became more important than the individual, and it replaced God as the focus of worship.

In this managed materialistic system, feelings became more important than intellect because feelings are more easily manipulated/managed. It was planned that this would be the basis upon which education would occur beginning in the last half of the 19th century.

Since this was a new polity, it was to be expected that the youth of that time would carry this philosophy with them into higher education and law school. This was the case with youths as Felix Frankfurter and Oliver Wendell Holmes, who in the first decades of the 20th century carried it with them into our courts and ultimately as Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court."

  http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis135.htm

[Sassy]

Also read Cuddy's article "Transformation by Crisis & Synthesis" and "Foundations, a Closer Look at Ford" (a 3 part article)  These are real eye openers if you haven't read any of this type of stuff before...