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Grigor McClelland

Professor Grigor McClelland CBE MBA CBIM Hons.DCL (2 January 1922 - 6 November 2013)[2][3][4] was a British businessman, academic and social activist. Born into a family of grocers, he managed his family firm of Laws Stores from 1948 to 1962, and again between 1978 to 1984. He became the first senior research fellow in Management Studies at the University of Oxford with Balliol College in 1962. During his time there he founded both the Journal of Management Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. In 1965, he became the first director of the newly formed Manchester Business School, and wrote various papers on management techniques and ideas.

William Grigor McClelland
Born02 January 1922 (1922-01-02)
Died06 November 2013 (2013-11-07) (aged 91)
EducationLeighton Park School
Balliol College, Oxford
Known forManagement Research, Retail and Social Activism
Spouse(s)Diana Avery Close 1946-2000
Caroline Spence 2003-2013[1]
ChildrenAndrew McClelland
Stephen McClelland
Jen McClelland
Rosemary McClelland
AwardsCBE
Hons.DCL
CBIM
Scientific career
FieldsManagement
InstitutionsBalliol College, Oxford
Manchester Business School
Victoria University of Manchester
Durham University

As the chair of the Washington Development Corporation, he played a strong role in attracting Nissan to build their first European factory in the region. He also worked as a government advisor including serving on both the National Economic Development Council and the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation. His strong beliefs as a Quaker had seen him chair the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust as well as setting up the charities, the Millfield House Foundation and the Tyne & Wear Foundation. In 2011, Peter Moizer in his Financial Times article, Dean’s column: a moral force stated,

Grigor McClelland is the antithesis of this tendency. He is a remarkable man who, guided by a moral compass that has never wavered, has changed the landscape of British business education in the past 50 years. His life and accomplishments are such that they need no exaggeration.[5]

Early years edit

McClelland was born in Gosforth on 2 January 1922, the only child of Arthur McClelland and his wife Jean (nee Grigor).[6] Arthur had founded his own grocery business, City Stores in 1907 and in the year of McClelland's birth, he had purchased the nine stores of WM Laws, combining the two firms to create Laws Stores.[7] He first went to Newcastle Preparatory School in Jesmond, before going to Leighton Park School in Reading, Berkshire, a boarding school that had been based on Quaker values since 1890.[2][4] When McClelland was not at school, he worked in his father's stores and in later life boasted that he could cut precisely a pound of butter or cheese from a large block. However his academic skills at Leighton Park were identified and he was awarded a Ruskin scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics.[6] However he was unable to take his place at Oxford, as World War II started. McClelland being a Quaker was a conscientious objector, so instead volunteered for the Friends' Ambulance Unit, serving first in North Africa before moving to the front in Europe.[2] When the war ended, McClelland stayed on to support the relief work for thirteen months, in which time he visited the Nuremberg trials and heard Martin Niemoeller speak.[6] He was deeply affected by these experiences, and his letters and recollections were published in his 1997 book Embers of War: Letters from a Relief Worker in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-46, [8] which has been referenced by many authors since.[9][10][11] On his return to Britain, McClelland started his delayed scholarship at Balliol College, and achieved a First Class Masters within two years instead of the normal three.[2][1][12]

Laws Stores edit

In 1948, after completing his degree at Oxford, he joined the family business of Laws Stores in the position of Managing director, with his father, Arthur, becoming the company chairman.[2] When McClelland joined the business it had around 52 grocery shops across the North East, but all were of the counter service variety. McClelland started to modernise the business by introducing self-service to the stores, and introducing a modern Power-Samas punched card computer recording system for both stock control, costings and the discharging of goods from the warehouse to the stores.[7][13][14][15] McClelland tested the Resale price maintenance in 1953, when Laws Stores reduced all Fruit squash drinks by 6 pence, but the manufacturer stopped supplying Laws after the local grocers association complained.[16] By 1957, the company had grown to 65 stores, with 385 employees and a turnover of £1.25 million a year.[17] In the same year, McClelland returned to Oxford carry out further study into retailing, splitting his time with Laws. While at Laws he recognised that there was a need for management training, and in 1959 became an original member of the Foundation for Management Education.[4] McClelland continued in his role as Managing director after joining Balliol College in 1962, however in 1965 he stepped down from the role to become Chairman of Laws Stores and to take up his new position with the Manchester Business School.[18][6]

McClelland returned to the role of Managing Director of Laws in 1978. The company was at this point struggling against the growth of national brands, the company still operating from its first generation supermarket stores and internal issues with warehousing.[13] McClelland looked at how they could improve Laws profitability, including should they go down the discounter route, take the company upmarket, move into offering non grocery stock or into different service industries. The company seriously considered several different options: becoming a specialist in fruit and vegetable retailing; becoming a specialist health food retailer; moving into the fast food business or targeting small town locations away from large supermarkets.[13] The company did attempt to the move into the fast food trade by taking on a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise, but the site proved to be wrong.[13] McClelland did however improve their warehousing issues, opening a new warehouse, while freeing up space by outsourcing their frozen storage to Amalgamated Foods of Durham.[13] By 1984 the company turnover had grown to £56 million,[19] but as McClelland stated later in his essay Economies of Scale in British food retail, the company was struggling and needed to be sold before it became unsellable.[13] In 1985 the whole chain was sold to Wm Low for £6.8 million.[19]

Academic career edit

In 1962, McClelland became the first ever senior research fellow in Management Studies at Oxford, when he accepted the role at Balliol College.[1] The new role did not have a strong remit, which allowed McClelland to continue to split his time with being Managing director at Laws Stores. However McClelland had seen scepticism amongst his fellow colleagues at Balliol, which he joked about later on life saying he used to get invitations to college dinners to prove he didn’t have two heads and a tail.[6] Management studies drew considerable scorn in the UK, and although it had been well established in the United States, it was seen as a doubtfully respectable subject in the UK.[2][6][20] Andrew Likierman, a former Dean at the London Business School and former student of McClelland at Balliol College said in 2011,

At a time when most managers believed in the ‘University of Life’ and few thought management could be taught or researched, Grigor was well ahead of his time...He understood that academics and practitioners could usefully talk to each other and that the best management education would come from a combination of theory and practice.[5]

McClelland decided to change that, when in 1963 he started the process of setting up both the Journal of Management Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies to oversee the journal. He believed that if Management studies had a journal like other established subjects it would be seen as acceptable.[6] McClelland's early corporate sponsors however clashed with him over their view of what the journal should entail. However, the journal started out publishing two short issues a year, featuring a reviews section and many papers on management education.[6] The society was set up to be the editorial board of the journal. McClelland chaired the society, but had appointed prominent academics Paul Hannika, Pierre Tabatoni and Tom Lupton to help provide guidance and the necessary contacts to improve the journal.[6] A key early highlight for the journal was McClelland securing the paper The business school: a problem in organizational design by Herbert A. Simon.[6] McClelland would continue as editor until he stepped down from the role in 1965, but continued to be a member of the Society's board.[6]

In 1965, McClelland was appointed as the first director for the newly formed Manchester Business School.[2][1] The Robbins Report in the 1960s recommended that two national centres for postgraduate business education be created, and the Franks Report subsequently suggested that one would be in London centred on the University of London (this would become the London Business School), and one in Manchester centred on the Victoria University and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.[21] These became the first two University Grants Committee-funded business schools.[22] In his application for the job role, McClelland wrote,

The aim of the School must be to play a major role in increasing the competence of British business management. It will do this primarily through the quality of the education it gives to its postgraduate and post-experience students and its research activity will also contribute by advancing relevant knowledge and its application.[23]

After visiting a US Business school and discussing ideas with Herbert A. Simon and Igor Ansoff, McClelland introduced what he called the Manchester Experiment, which morphed into the Manchester Method. Unlike the other new business school in London, a practical approach to management education was introduced where learners would entail learning-by-doing, using detailed case studies of real businesses and live company projects.[23][24][25][6] This method of teaching was joined by McClelland setting up a loose non departmental structure which was based on teamwork instead of a hierarchical decisions.[25] This was radical for the time, and McClelland had to integrate the differing beliefs, from those had worked at the former Manchester School of Management and Administration, which included Douglas Hague, John Morris and Alan Pearson; Luptonites who had been influenced by Tom Upton and Enid Mumford, and those who were swayed by Stafford Beer.[6] McClelland championed the principle that business could not be divorced from society, and that managers should be socially and ethically responsible.[18] He believed that believed the Manchester Business School had a moral responsibility, in that more effective managers would result in companies that generated more wealth, and therefore more jobs.[6] The school initially offered diplomas and master degrees,[24] but under McClelland it introduced the MBA with the first learners graduating in 1969.[26] In 1967, McClelland took on the role of Professor and Dean at Victoria University's Faculty of Business Administration, in addition to his role as Director at the business school.[6][27] McClelland would state in 1968 that

Management schools should ask, not how do humans behave in organisations, but given how humans behave in organisations, how should the manager proceed to attain his objectives?[28]

Under McClelland's leadership the school opened the specialist Banking research centre in 1971,[24] and along with his successor, Tom Upton, were instrumental in pushing for the appointments in new research and teaching positions in entrepreneurship and creativity.[29] McClelland completed his own MBA in 1971.[12] In 1977, McClelland left both of his roles at the school to return to his family business. John Wilson, in his book The making of modern management: British management in historical perspective recalled in McClelland's own words, that he believed he was a facilitator, arguing it was his character rather than the quantum of his leadership which was more important in developing in what's was described as a federation of self-starters.[30]

After returning to the north east in 1977, McClelland became a visiting chair at Durham University, working with the Business School, as well as with the departments of Engineering and Geography.[4] Between 1986 until 1998, McClelland was a governor of the university's business school.[12]

Writing and speeches edit

McClelland wrote two seminal books, Studies in Retailing in 1963 and Costs and Competition in Retailing in 1966 which are regularly referenced.[6][31][32][33] He wrote papers and articles that appeared in various journals and magazines on retail, management and quaker subjects.[34][35][36]

In 1976, McClelland delivered his seminar And a New Earth at the Swarthmore Lecture.[1] In 1996, McClelland delivered the first George Richardson Lecture, What is Quaker Studies.[37]

Selected Bibliography edit

  • 1958 - Sales per person and size in retailing: some fallacies (doi 10.2307/2097632)
  • 1959 - Pricing for Profit in Retailing (doi 10.2307/2097812)
  • 1960 - The least-cost level of stocks and the rate of interest (doi 10.2307/2097362)
  • 1960 - Stocks in Distribution (doi 10.2307/2097408)
  • 1962 - The Supermarket and Society (doi 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1962.tb01106.x)
  • 1962 - Economics of the Supermarket (doi 10.2307/2228621)
  • 1962 - The role of the super-market in the distribution of agricultural products (doi 10.1111/j.1477-9552.1962.tb01712.x)
  • 1963 - Studies in Retailing (ISBN 978-0631078609)
  • 1963 - The Organization of Distribution (doi 10.2307/2097380)
  • 1966 - Costs and Competition in Retailing (ISBN 978-0333077979)
  • 1967 - Career Patterns and Organizational Needs (doi 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1967.tb00572.x)
  • 1969 - Management Education: Management Making Brainpower Effective (doi 10.1111/j.1467-6486.1969.tb00587.x)
  • 1971 - Myth Squared (doi 10.1177/135050767100200202)
  • 1973 - Management in a service environment (doi 10.1108/eb050396)
  • 1974 - Integration of Research and Teaching in Management Education (
  • 1975 - Mathematics in management—How it looks to the manager (doi. 10.1016/0305-0483(75)90114-0)
  • 1990 - Defence Expenditure and the economics of safety: A comment (doi 10.1080/10430719008404679)
  • 1997 - Embers of War: Letters from a Relief Worker in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-46 (ISBN 978-1860643125)
  • 2015 - Sydney Bailey's Work in Quaker Perspective (ISBN 978-1315668239)

Public service edit

McClelland served on many national and local government advisory bodies, as well as those of independent institutions, including:

In 1977, he was appointed Chairman of the Washington Development Corporation by the Secretary of State for the Environment Peter Shore, replacing Sir James Steel.[46] As Chairman, McClelland was empowered to decide on Washington Development Corporation involvement in any regional projects. McClelland in this role pushed for the development of Nissan's first European factory at Washington, and was part of the superviory committee set up to negotiate the investment.[47][2] McClelland continued in the role until the corporation was abolished in 1988.[12]

Voluntary work edit

McClelland, along with his first wife Diana were active members of the Society of Friends, at both local and national level, with him serving as an Elder between 1958 and 1962.[1][48] Prior to World War II, McClelland had argued in a school speaking competition entitled When we have won the war that Germany should not be punished with another Versailles style treatment.[49] He would later go on Quaker and International Fellowship of Reconciliation organised delegation trips, first to the USSR in 1952 and then China in 1952 and 1955, followed by the US in 1957, afterwards having to overcome smears of being a communist sympathiser.[1][50][51] In his eighties, McClelland promoted to the Newcastle Local Friends meeting a new project. The Newcastle Conflict Resolution Network idea was adopted and receives funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.[49]

McClelland joined the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust in 1956 as a trustee, and served as chair between 1965 and 1978, and vice chair during the 1980s.[2][52] In the 1960s, he donated 10% of Laws Stores shares to the trust.[53] In 1973, McClelland was appointed a founding trustee for the Anglo-German Foundation for the Society of Industrial Society, a charity founded to improve relations between Britain and Germany.[42][6] In 1976, McClelland set up the Millfield House Foundation with his wife Diana, with the charity given a quarter of the shares in Laws Stores. The foundation, named after their family home, received a big cash boost with the sale of Laws Stores in 1985. As part of philanthropy the foundation asked its grant recipients, who were based in the North East, for their opinions on the charity's policy.[6][2] In 1996 the foundation changed it's policy, moving from giving grants for projects to tackle deprivation, instead focusing on influencing public policies to achieve beneficial social changes.[53] From 1987 to 1993, McClelland was the Chairman of the Tyne Tees Telethon Trust.[12][6] During 1988, McClelland co-founded the Tyne and Wear Foundation with George Hepburn.[49] The community foundation started with funding of £30,000 a year for three years from the Baring Foundation, which was supplemented by a further £10,000 a year from four local trusts.[54] McClelland recalled that he

...learned that we should target our fundraising at a very small sector - the top. We developed our standing partly by appointing honorary officers - the Lord Lieutenant of the county as President, two established local philanthropists, William Leach and Catherine Cookson, as patrons, and a dozen well-known figures connected within the region, as Vice-presidents.[55]

In 1991, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Charities Aid Foundation created a £2 million challenge fund, which the foundation was encouraged to bid for. The foundation tendered for a £1 million grant, but had to raise a further £2 million from others to be successful. McClelland used his contacts to pull together the elite of the North East, and the money was raised to receive their grant bid.[55] Hepburn would later state that Grigor put his name and reputation behind an untried, untested project and made it great.[55][56] In 1995, contrary to his Quaker beliefs against gambling, McClelland became a member of the North East Advisory Panel of the National Lottery Charities Board.[12][6]

Awards and recognition edit

McClelland was made a Companion at the British Institute of Management, the most senior grade of membership which was awarded by invitation only.[4] In 1985, McClelland was honoured by Durham University when he was given an Honorary Doctorate in Law.[4] In the Queen's Birthday Honours for 1994, McClelland was given a CBE for his charitable services in Tyne & Wear.[57] It was reported he had previously turned down an award while Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister.[1] In 2003, he returned the CBE as part of his protest to the war in Iraq, but was given a receipt saying he could have it back when and if he wanted it, which he duly did in 2009.[56][6]

In 2011, the Journal for Management Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies launched the Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award. It is awarded to innovative scholarship demonstrated in a PhD or DBA thesis within management and organisation studies.[58] As part of the 50th anniversary of the Manchester Business School in 2015, the Grigor McClelland lecture series was launched to explore the interaction between business, education and social responsibility. It was named in McClelland's honour as this was an area that he had pioneered in.[59]

Personal life edit

McClelland met his first wife, Diana Avery Close, while they were volunteering as an aid worker in Germany after World War II and were married in 1946.[1][49] They had four children, Andrew, Rosemary, Jen and Stephen.[1] In 2000, Diana died of cancer, and three years later McClelland married another Quaker in Caroline Spence. In 2013, McClelland died at the age of 91.[2]

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Professor Grigor McClelland CBE MBA CBIM Hons DCL 2 January 1922 6 November 2013 2 3 4 was a British businessman academic and social activist Born into a family of grocers he managed his family firm of Laws Stores from 1948 to 1962 and again between 1978 to 1984 He became the first senior research fellow in Management Studies at the University of Oxford with Balliol College in 1962 During his time there he founded both the Journal of Management Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies In 1965 he became the first director of the newly formed Manchester Business School and wrote various papers on management techniques and ideas William Grigor McClellandBorn02 January 1922 1922 01 02 GosforthDied06 November 2013 2013 11 07 aged 91 EducationLeighton Park School Balliol College OxfordKnown forManagement Research Retail and Social ActivismSpouse s Diana Avery Close 1946 2000 Caroline Spence 2003 2013 1 ChildrenAndrew McClelland Stephen McClelland Jen McClelland Rosemary McClellandAwardsCBE Hons DCL CBIMScientific careerFieldsManagementInstitutionsBalliol College Oxford Manchester Business School Victoria University of Manchester Durham UniversityAs the chair of the Washington Development Corporation he played a strong role in attracting Nissan to build their first European factory in the region He also worked as a government advisor including serving on both the National Economic Development Council and the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation His strong beliefs as a Quaker had seen him chair the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust as well as setting up the charities the Millfield House Foundation and the Tyne amp Wear Foundation In 2011 Peter Moizer in his Financial Times article Dean s column a moral force stated Grigor McClelland is the antithesis of this tendency He is a remarkable man who guided by a moral compass that has never wavered has changed the landscape of British business education in the past 50 years His life and accomplishments are such that they need no exaggeration 5 Contents 1 Early years 2 Laws Stores 3 Academic career 4 Writing and speeches 4 1 Selected Bibliography 5 Public service 6 Voluntary work 7 Awards and recognition 8 Personal life 9 ReferencesEarly years editMcClelland was born in Gosforth on 2 January 1922 the only child of Arthur McClelland and his wife Jean nee Grigor 6 Arthur had founded his own grocery business City Stores in 1907 and in the year of McClelland s birth he had purchased the nine stores of WM Laws combining the two firms to create Laws Stores 7 He first went to Newcastle Preparatory School in Jesmond before going to Leighton Park School in Reading Berkshire a boarding school that had been based on Quaker values since 1890 2 4 When McClelland was not at school he worked in his father s stores and in later life boasted that he could cut precisely a pound of butter or cheese from a large block However his academic skills at Leighton Park were identified and he was awarded a Ruskin scholarship at Balliol College Oxford to study Philosophy Politics and Economics 6 However he was unable to take his place at Oxford as World War II started McClelland being a Quaker was a conscientious objector so instead volunteered for the Friends Ambulance Unit serving first in North Africa before moving to the front in Europe 2 When the war ended McClelland stayed on to support the relief work for thirteen months in which time he visited the Nuremberg trials and heard Martin Niemoeller speak 6 He was deeply affected by these experiences and his letters and recollections were published in his 1997 book Embers of War Letters from a Relief Worker in the British Zone of Germany 1945 46 8 which has been referenced by many authors since 9 10 11 On his return to Britain McClelland started his delayed scholarship at Balliol College and achieved a First Class Masters within two years instead of the normal three 2 1 12 Laws Stores editIn 1948 after completing his degree at Oxford he joined the family business of Laws Stores in the position of Managing director with his father Arthur becoming the company chairman 2 When McClelland joined the business it had around 52 grocery shops across the North East but all were of the counter service variety McClelland started to modernise the business by introducing self service to the stores and introducing a modern Power Samas punched card computer recording system for both stock control costings and the discharging of goods from the warehouse to the stores 7 13 14 15 McClelland tested the Resale price maintenance in 1953 when Laws Stores reduced all Fruit squash drinks by 6 pence but the manufacturer stopped supplying Laws after the local grocers association complained 16 By 1957 the company had grown to 65 stores with 385 employees and a turnover of 1 25 million a year 17 In the same year McClelland returned to Oxford carry out further study into retailing splitting his time with Laws While at Laws he recognised that there was a need for management training and in 1959 became an original member of the Foundation for Management Education 4 McClelland continued in his role as Managing director after joining Balliol College in 1962 however in 1965 he stepped down from the role to become Chairman of Laws Stores and to take up his new position with the Manchester Business School 18 6 McClelland returned to the role of Managing Director of Laws in 1978 The company was at this point struggling against the growth of national brands the company still operating from its first generation supermarket stores and internal issues with warehousing 13 McClelland looked at how they could improve Laws profitability including should they go down the discounter route take the company upmarket move into offering non grocery stock or into different service industries The company seriously considered several different options becoming a specialist in fruit and vegetable retailing becoming a specialist health food retailer moving into the fast food business or targeting small town locations away from large supermarkets 13 The company did attempt to the move into the fast food trade by taking on a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise but the site proved to be wrong 13 McClelland did however improve their warehousing issues opening a new warehouse while freeing up space by outsourcing their frozen storage to Amalgamated Foods of Durham 13 By 1984 the company turnover had grown to 56 million 19 but as McClelland stated later in his essay Economies of Scale in British food retail the company was struggling and needed to be sold before it became unsellable 13 In 1985 the whole chain was sold to Wm Low for 6 8 million 19 Academic career editIn 1962 McClelland became the first ever senior research fellow in Management Studies at Oxford when he accepted the role at Balliol College 1 The new role did not have a strong remit which allowed McClelland to continue to split his time with being Managing director at Laws Stores However McClelland had seen scepticism amongst his fellow colleagues at Balliol which he joked about later on life saying he used to get invitations to college dinners to prove he didn t have two heads and a tail 6 Management studies drew considerable scorn in the UK and although it had been well established in the United States it was seen as a doubtfully respectable subject in the UK 2 6 20 Andrew Likierman a former Dean at the London Business School and former student of McClelland at Balliol College said in 2011 At a time when most managers believed in the University of Life and few thought management could be taught or researched Grigor was well ahead of his time He understood that academics and practitioners could usefully talk to each other and that the best management education would come from a combination of theory and practice 5 McClelland decided to change that when in 1963 he started the process of setting up both the Journal of Management Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies to oversee the journal He believed that if Management studies had a journal like other established subjects it would be seen as acceptable 6 McClelland s early corporate sponsors however clashed with him over their view of what the journal should entail However the journal started out publishing two short issues a year featuring a reviews section and many papers on management education 6 The society was set up to be the editorial board of the journal McClelland chaired the society but had appointed prominent academics Paul Hannika Pierre Tabatoni and Tom Lupton to help provide guidance and the necessary contacts to improve the journal 6 A key early highlight for the journal was McClelland securing the paper The business school a problem in organizational design by Herbert A Simon 6 McClelland would continue as editor until he stepped down from the role in 1965 but continued to be a member of the Society s board 6 In 1965 McClelland was appointed as the first director for the newly formed Manchester Business School 2 1 The Robbins Report in the 1960s recommended that two national centres for postgraduate business education be created and the Franks Report subsequently suggested that one would be in London centred on the University of London this would become the London Business School and one in Manchester centred on the Victoria University and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 21 These became the first two University Grants Committee funded business schools 22 In his application for the job role McClelland wrote The aim of the School must be to play a major role in increasing the competence of British business management It will do this primarily through the quality of the education it gives to its postgraduate and post experience students and its research activity will also contribute by advancing relevant knowledge and its application 23 After visiting a US Business school and discussing ideas with Herbert A Simon and Igor Ansoff McClelland introduced what he called the Manchester Experiment which morphed into the Manchester Method Unlike the other new business school in London a practical approach to management education was introduced where learners would entail learning by doing using detailed case studies of real businesses and live company projects 23 24 25 6 This method of teaching was joined by McClelland setting up a loose non departmental structure which was based on teamwork instead of a hierarchical decisions 25 This was radical for the time and McClelland had to integrate the differing beliefs from those had worked at the former Manchester School of Management and Administration which included Douglas Hague John Morris and Alan Pearson Luptonites who had been influenced by Tom Upton and Enid Mumford and those who were swayed by Stafford Beer 6 McClelland championed the principle that business could not be divorced from society and that managers should be socially and ethically responsible 18 He believed that believed the Manchester Business School had a moral responsibility in that more effective managers would result in companies that generated more wealth and therefore more jobs 6 The school initially offered diplomas and master degrees 24 but under McClelland it introduced the MBA with the first learners graduating in 1969 26 In 1967 McClelland took on the role of Professor and Dean at Victoria University s Faculty of Business Administration in addition to his role as Director at the business school 6 27 McClelland would state in 1968 that Management schools should ask not how do humans behave in organisations but given how humans behave in organisations how should the manager proceed to attain his objectives 28 Under McClelland s leadership the school opened the specialist Banking research centre in 1971 24 and along with his successor Tom Upton were instrumental in pushing for the appointments in new research and teaching positions in entrepreneurship and creativity 29 McClelland completed his own MBA in 1971 12 In 1977 McClelland left both of his roles at the school to return to his family business John Wilson in his book The making of modern management British management in historical perspective recalled in McClelland s own words that he believed he was a facilitator arguing it was his character rather than the quantum of his leadership which was more important in developing in what s was described as a federation of self starters 30 After returning to the north east in 1977 McClelland became a visiting chair at Durham University working with the Business School as well as with the departments of Engineering and Geography 4 Between 1986 until 1998 McClelland was a governor of the university s business school 12 Writing and speeches editMcClelland wrote two seminal books Studies in Retailing in 1963 and Costs and Competition in Retailing in 1966 which are regularly referenced 6 31 32 33 He wrote papers and articles that appeared in various journals and magazines on retail management and quaker subjects 34 35 36 In 1976 McClelland delivered his seminar And a New Earth at the Swarthmore Lecture 1 In 1996 McClelland delivered the first George Richardson Lecture What is Quaker Studies 37 Selected Bibliography edit 1958 Sales per person and size in retailing some fallacies doi 10 2307 2097632 1959 Pricing for Profit in Retailing doi 10 2307 2097812 1960 The least cost level of stocks and the rate of interest doi 10 2307 2097362 1960 Stocks in Distribution doi 10 2307 2097408 1962 The Supermarket and Society doi 10 1111 j 1467 954X 1962 tb01106 x 1962 Economics of the Supermarket doi 10 2307 2228621 1962 The role of the super market in the distribution of agricultural products doi 10 1111 j 1477 9552 1962 tb01712 x 1963 Studies in Retailing ISBN 978 0631078609 1963 The Organization of Distribution doi 10 2307 2097380 1966 Costs and Competition in Retailing ISBN 978 0333077979 1967 Career Patterns and Organizational Needs doi 10 1111 j 1467 6486 1967 tb00572 x 1969 Management Education Management Making Brainpower Effective doi 10 1111 j 1467 6486 1969 tb00587 x 1971 Myth Squared doi 10 1177 135050767100200202 1973 Management in a service environment doi 10 1108 eb050396 1974 Integration of Research and Teaching in Management Education 1975 Mathematics in management How it looks to the manager doi 10 1016 0305 0483 75 90114 0 1990 Defence Expenditure and the economics of safety A comment doi 10 1080 10430719008404679 1997 Embers of War Letters from a Relief Worker in the British Zone of Germany 1945 46 ISBN 978 1860643125 2015 Sydney Bailey s Work in Quaker Perspective ISBN 978 1315668239 Public service editMcClelland served on many national and local government advisory bodies as well as those of independent institutions including Social Science Research Council 1971 74 McClelland was the chair of the Management and Industrial relations committee 38 National Economic Development Council 1969 71 39 6 Economic Development Committee for Disruptive Trades Chairman 1980 84 39 Economic Development Committee for Retail Trades Chairman 1 6 National Computing Centre Deputy Chairman 1966 1968 4 Industrial Reorganisation Corporation 1966 71 4 6 40 The Consumer Council 1963 66 4 41 12 National Institute of Economic and Social Research Governor 4 Northern Industrial Development Board 1977 86 4 12 42 Economic Planning Council Northern Region 1965 66 4 41 12 Royal Economic Society 43 Council of the Supermarket Association 44 National Board for Prices and Incomes 45 Oxford Research Group 2001 05 Director 12 Employment Institute 1985 92 12 In 1977 he was appointed Chairman of the Washington Development Corporation by the Secretary of State for the Environment Peter Shore replacing Sir James Steel 46 As Chairman McClelland was empowered to decide on Washington Development Corporation involvement in any regional projects McClelland in this role pushed for the development of Nissan s first European factory at Washington and was part of the superviory committee set up to negotiate the investment 47 2 McClelland continued in the role until the corporation was abolished in 1988 12 Voluntary work editMcClelland along with his first wife Diana were active members of the Society of Friends at both local and national level with him serving as an Elder between 1958 and 1962 1 48 Prior to World War II McClelland had argued in a school speaking competition entitled When we have won the war that Germany should not be punished with another Versailles style treatment 49 He would later go on Quaker and International Fellowship of Reconciliation organised delegation trips first to the USSR in 1952 and then China in 1952 and 1955 followed by the US in 1957 afterwards having to overcome smears of being a communist sympathiser 1 50 51 In his eighties McClelland promoted to the Newcastle Local Friends meeting a new project The Newcastle Conflict Resolution Network idea was adopted and receives funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust 49 McClelland joined the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust in 1956 as a trustee and served as chair between 1965 and 1978 and vice chair during the 1980s 2 52 In the 1960s he donated 10 of Laws Stores shares to the trust 53 In 1973 McClelland was appointed a founding trustee for the Anglo German Foundation for the Society of Industrial Society a charity founded to improve relations between Britain and Germany 42 6 In 1976 McClelland set up the Millfield House Foundation with his wife Diana with the charity given a quarter of the shares in Laws Stores The foundation named after their family home received a big cash boost with the sale of Laws Stores in 1985 As part of philanthropy the foundation asked its grant recipients who were based in the North East for their opinions on the charity s policy 6 2 In 1996 the foundation changed it s policy moving from giving grants for projects to tackle deprivation instead focusing on influencing public policies to achieve beneficial social changes 53 From 1987 to 1993 McClelland was the Chairman of the Tyne Tees Telethon Trust 12 6 During 1988 McClelland co founded the Tyne and Wear Foundation with George Hepburn 49 The community foundation started with funding of 30 000 a year for three years from the Baring Foundation which was supplemented by a further 10 000 a year from four local trusts 54 McClelland recalled that he learned that we should target our fundraising at a very small sector the top We developed our standing partly by appointing honorary officers the Lord Lieutenant of the county as President two established local philanthropists William Leach and Catherine Cookson as patrons and a dozen well known figures connected within the region as Vice presidents 55 In 1991 the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Charities Aid Foundation created a 2 million challenge fund which the foundation was encouraged to bid for The foundation tendered for a 1 million grant but had to raise a further 2 million from others to be successful McClelland used his contacts to pull together the elite of the North East and the money was raised to receive their grant bid 55 Hepburn would later state that Grigor put his name and reputation behind an untried untested project and made it great 55 56 In 1995 contrary to his Quaker beliefs against gambling McClelland became a member of the North East Advisory Panel of the National Lottery Charities Board 12 6 Awards and recognition editMcClelland was made a Companion at the British Institute of Management the most senior grade of membership which was awarded by invitation only 4 In 1985 McClelland was honoured by Durham University when he was given an Honorary Doctorate in Law 4 In the Queen s Birthday Honours for 1994 McClelland was given a CBE for his charitable services in Tyne amp Wear 57 It was reported he had previously turned down an award while Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister 1 In 2003 he returned the CBE as part of his protest to the war in Iraq but was given a receipt saying he could have it back when and if he wanted it which he duly did in 2009 56 6 In 2011 the Journal for Management Studies and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies launched the Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award It is awarded to innovative scholarship demonstrated in a PhD or DBA thesis within management and organisation studies 58 As part of the 50th anniversary of the Manchester Business School in 2015 the Grigor McClelland lecture series was launched to explore the interaction between business education and social responsibility It was named in McClelland s honour as this was an area that he had pioneered in 59 Personal life editMcClelland met his first wife Diana Avery Close while they were volunteering as an aid worker in Germany after World War II and were married in 1946 1 49 They had four children Andrew Rosemary Jen and Stephen 1 In 2000 Diana died of cancer and three years later McClelland married another Quaker in Caroline Spence In 2013 McClelland died at the age of 91 2 References edit a b c d e f g h i j k Loss of a clear moral compass William Grigor McClelland died on November 6 Steve Hilditch pays tribute The Journal 21 November 2013 a b c d e f g h i j k Grigor McClelland obituary The Guardian 14 November 2013 Reference UND DB19 G Papers of Grigor McClelland Durham University Retrieved 3 March 2024 a b c d e f g h i j k l Honorary Degrees Durham University Gazette 1984 85 Vol III combined series 1985 p 62 a b Dean s column a moral force The Financial Times 24 October 2011 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Grigor McClelland CBE Founder Editor 1964 1966 Society for the Advancement of Management Studies Retrieved 3 March 2024 a b Laws Stores Evening Chronicle 10 December 2012 McClelland W G 1997 Embers of War Letters from a Relief Worker in the British Zone of Germany 1945 46 Bloomsbury Academic ISBN 9781860643125 Martin Iddon 2013 New Music at Darmstadt Nono Stockhausen Cage and Boulez Cambridge University Press p 12 ISBN 9781107067752 Gerard Daniel Cohen 2012 In War s Wake Europe s Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order Oxford University Press USA p 112 ISBN 9780195399684 Esther Moller Johannes Paulmann Katharina Stornig 2020 Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century Practice Politics and the Power of Representation Springer International Publishing p 54 ISBN 9783030446307 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link a b c d e f g h i j k McClelland Prof William Grigor Who s Who 2016 doi 10 1093 ww 9780199540884 013 U25379 a b c d e f John Dawsond 1990 Competition and Markets Essays in Honour of Margaret Hall Palgrave Macmillan UK p 134 ISBN 9781349105106 Chain Store Directors Address Newspaper World Vol 2815 2840 Benn Brothers Limited 1952 p 222 Self Service Development Association conference Food 1952 p 45 Shaw Gareth Benson John 1999 The Retailing Industry 1945 Retail revolutions I B Tauris p 30 Adapting to the supermarket era Brochure No 207 215 International Chamber of Commerce 1960 p 13 a b Grigor McClelland Alliance Manchester Business School Retrieved 4 March 2024 a b Supermarket industry changes Environment amp Planning A 28 1474 1477 1996 F G Hurley 1972 Training Retail Managers A Symposium Institute of Personnel Management p 13 ISBN 9780852920381 Peter Venables Technical Education in Great Britain Second Thoughts on the Robbins Report International Review of Education Vol 11 No 2 1965 pp 151 164 Manchester Business School Archive Archive Hub Jisc Retrieved 31 August 2023 a b 50 years of MBS In business to create the leaders of industry Manchester Evening News 17 April 2015 a b c Manchester Business School Archive Jisc Retrieved 5 March 2024 a b Management Education and Competitiveness Europe Japan and the United States Taylor amp Francis 2013 p 139 ISBN 9781135098964 Our History Alliance Manchester Business School Retrieved 6 March 2024 Members of the board of the Faculty of Business Administration Calendar Victoria University 1971 p 98 Professor Grigor McClelland Manchester Business School Co partnership Vol 531 542 1968 p 15 Scott G Isaksen 1993 Nurturing and Developing Creativity The Emergence of a Discipline Bloomsbury Academic p 157 ISBN 9781567500080 Allan P O William 2010 The History of UK Business and Management Education Emerald Group Publishing Limited p 86 87 ISBN 9781849507806 A M Findlay 2002 Retailing critical concepts 3 1 Retail practices and operations Routledge p 327 David Marshall David W Marshall 1995 Food Choice and the Consumer Springer US p 103 ISBN 9780751402346 Rachel Bowlby 2022 Back to the Shops The High Street in History and the Future Oxford University Press p 44 ISBN 9780198815914 Management and the Executive Philosophy Problems and Practices a Selective Bibliography The Library United States Department of the Army p 75 P J H Baily 2013 PURCHASING AND SUPPLY MANAGEMENT Springer US p 115 ISBN 9781489969040 W G McClelland July 1962 The Supermarket and Society The Sociological Journal 10 2 doi 10 1111 j 1467 954X 1962 tb01106 x The First George Richardson Lecture Delivered by Professor Grigor McClelland at the University ofSunderland October 22 1996 What Is Quaker Studies 1996 Members SSRC Newsletter Vol 14 25 Social Science Research Council 1972 p 19 a b John Dawsond 1990 Competition and Markets Essays in Honour of Margaret Hall Palgrave Macmillan UK p ix ISBN 9781349105106 Jonathan Boswell James Peters 1997 Capitalism in Contention Business Leaders and Political Economy in Modern Britain Cambridge University Press p 45 ISBN 9780521588041 a b Consumer Council 1970 Report 1963 64 H M Stationery Office p 34 a b Northern Industrial Development Board Hansard 21 April 1980 Richard M Moose Charles F Meissner 1974 Vietnam May 1974 A Staff Report Prepared for the Use of the Committee on Foreign 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1985 p 29 a b Grigor McClelland Bolder Giving Retrieved 7 March 2024 Community Foundation Tyne amp Wear and Northumberland Philanthropy North East Retrieved 7 March 2024 a b c Jette Ernst Kristian Larsen Ole Jacob Thomassen Sarah Robinson 2021 Pierre Bourdieu in Studies of Organization and Management Societal Change and Transforming Fields ISBN 9781000457544 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link a b Businessman returns CBE over Iraq war BBC News 21 March 2003 Queens Birthday Honours London Gazette Vol 53696 10 June 1994 pp 1 30 The Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award Society for the Advancement of Management Studies Retrieved 8 March 2024 Grigor McClelland series Alliance Manchester Business School Retrieved 8 March 2024 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Grigor McClelland amp oldid 1213020990, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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