International Committee of Scientific Management

International Committee of Scientific Management, Comité International de l'Organisation Scientifique (C.I.O.S.)
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Founded: 19/6/1926
Sources: HB 1929

Officers

An Executive Committee composed of the president, three vice-presidents, one secretary-general and one secretary-general delegate, who are elected every two years. The Presidential Commission is composed of the president, the secretary-general and the secretary-general delegate.

Seats

Members in these countries

The International Committee of Scientific Management is not open to private membership. There can be only one member for each country, this member being a recognised national committee for the country. Every recognised national committee may delegate up to five members to the International Committee, the delegations having only one vote per country.
Austria , Belgium , Czechoslovakia , France , Germany , Italy , Japan , Netherlands , Poland , Romania , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , United Kingdom , United States of America ,

Object

To study the application of scientific management ; to organise periodical international congresses of scientific management; to co-ordinate all work done in the world for scientific management, applied to all spheres of human activities and to provide a channel for the interchanges of experiences for all persons or bodies concerned with scientific management.

General facts

As a consequence of a general wish expressed at the International Congress of Brussels 1925, the International Committee of Scientific Management was constituted in Paris on June 19th, 1926, replacing a Permanent International Delegation of Scientific Management. In January 1927, the International Committee of Scientific Management, together with the International Labour Office and the Twentieth-Century Fund of Boston, founded in Geneva the International Institute of Scientific Management. The International Committee, acting as a federation of all the different national committees formed or in formation, collaborates with the International Institute of Geneva to further applications of scientific management throughout the world.

Publications

A Bulletin is published twice or thrice a year.

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