Religion: Skyhooks Wanted

"Certainly no people have ever had so much, and enjoyed so little real satisfaction . . . Can it be that our god of production has feet of clay? Does industry need a new religion—or at least a better one than it has had?"

These words came from no Sunday pulpiteer, but from the assistant to the president of the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio. Oliver Arthur Ohmann, 55, writing in the current Harvard Business Review. Says Oilman Ohmann. who used to head the Department of Psychology at Western Reserve University's Cleveland College: U.S. wage earners are uneasy, and the problem...

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