Ordway tead biography definition

Ordway Tead (10 September 1891 – November 1973)^[1] was an American organizational theorist, adjunct professor of industrial relations at Columbia University, chair of the New York Board of Higher Education, first president of the Society for Advancement of Management (SAM), editor and publishing executive, and prolific author on personnel administration and labor relations, organizational management, higher education, and political science.^[2]

Personal

Tead was born in Somerville, Massachusetts the son of Edward Sampson (1852-1919) and Louise Moore Ordway (1858-1935) Tead.^[3] In 1915 Tead married Clara Alberta Murphy (1891-1980), long term president of Briarcliff College and they had one daughter, Diana Tead Michaelis (1925 1981) who was an award-winning documentary filmmaker and public television producer.^[4] Tead died in Westport, Connecticut in November 1973.^[3]

Career

Tead graduated from Boston Latin Scho