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Conference Paper

Author
Lay, M. G.
Title
20th Century Victorian Engineers - Case studies of engineers as leaders in Victoria from 1890 to 1990
In
Fourth International Conference on Engineering Management, 1994: Preprints
Imprint
Institution of Engineers Australia, Barton, ACT, 1994, pp. 7-12
ISBN/ISSN
0858255987
Url
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.220235441294955
Abstract

The paper explores the way in which some prominent engineers and engineering organisations performed as leaders in Victoria from 1890 to 1990. It challenges the idea that engineers are born to lead and implies the alternative proposition that the proportion of leaders amongst engineers probably reflects the community norm. Indeed, the paper demonstrates that Victorian engineers, through a set of peculiar historical circumstances, were given unique opportunities to lead and manage large organisations. Whilst they did their specific jobs well, they did not prepare their organisations adequately for an inevitable future and engineering managers as a whole thus lost a significant inheritance.

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