Dillard E. Bird

Bird was born in 1906 in Covington, Kentucky, son of Nora M. Bird (1874-1963).[https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bird&GSiman=1&GScnty=1047&GRid=155712225& Dillard Eugene Bird, Sr] at findagrave.com. Accessed 2017-09-28 He had obtained his AB from the University of Cincinnati in 1933 under Ralph C. Davis,Ohio State University. Abstracts of Master's Theses. Nr. 26-30. 1937. p. 24 and his MBA from the Ohio State University in 1938.Ohio State University. Annual Report. 1939. p. 116 In 1951 he also obtained his PhD at Ohio State with the thesis, entitled The relation of stabilization within the business organization to guarantee of work or wages.The American economic review, Volume 41. 1951. p. 823

After his graduation Bird had joined the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania faculty, where he was placement officer in 1937University Placement Service of the University of Pennsylvania, University Placement Review, Volumes 9-12. 1937. p. 32 and assistant director of Student Personnel by 1939.University of Pennsylvania. Directory of Officers, Faculty, Students, Departments. 1939. p. 15 He also taught industrial management and industrial relations at Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, and was industry and government consultant in human relations.United States. Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany. Office of Labor Affairs. Visiting Expert Series. Nr. 1-15, 1947. p. 127

Around 1943 Bird founded his own firm, Dillard E. Bird Associates, consultants to management in Cincinnati, Ohio. Among others he was expert for the United States Office of the US High Commissioner for Germany in 1937, the National Wholesale Druggists' Association in 1949,National Wholesale Druggists' Association (1949). N.W.D.A. Year Book. p. 110 and the SEE Foremanship Foundation in Dayton, Ohio in 1951.

One of his notable employees was the Carl Hartley Elliott, who was junior management consultant in 1947–48, and later professor and president of the Trine University. Since 1942 Bird also taught personnel administration and labor relations at the evening college of the University of Cincinnati.

Bird was the 10th president of the Society for Advancement of Management from 1949 to 1951. He was the successor of Charles C. James, and was succeeded by Leon J. Dunn.S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, Volume 53, 1988. p. 40

Dillard Eugene Bird married Mary Carmichael Andrews, daughter of James H. M. Andrews and Esther McKinley (Bender) Andrews.The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1967. p. 367 They had a son, Dillard Eugene Bird, Jr. (1941-2015).

• Dillard Eugene Bird. Foremanship Training, Development, Methods: A Case Study. Master thesis University of Cincinnati, 1933.
• Bird, Dillard Eugene. Building human relations. Cincinnati, 1948U.S. Government Printing Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1948, 1948. p. 353
• Dillard E. Bird. The Development of Management Associations in Germany. 1949.
• Dillard E. Bird. The relation of stabilization within the business organization to guarantee of work or wages. PhD thesis at Ohio State, 1951.
• Dillard Eugene Bird. The Guarantee of Work and Wages. Ohio State University, 1953. (614 pp.)

;Articles, a selection

• Bird, Dillard E. Chapter operations manual. SEE Society for the Advancement of Management, 1948.U.S. Government Printing Office, Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals, Volume 3, 1949. p. 20.
• Bird, Dillard E. Dillard E. Bird Associates, consultants to management. 1948.U.S. Government Printing Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1948, 1949. p. 33
• Bird, Dillard E. Survey of economic education. SEE Foremanship Foundation, Dayton, Ohio, 1951.U.S. Government Printing Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1951, 1952. p. 421

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