National industrial conference board
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National industrial conference board
米国産業協議会
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米国産業協議会
Industrial Conference Board
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Conference Board National Industrial Conference Board
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Conference Board National Industrial Conference Board
National industrial conference board (New York)
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Conference Board ( -1970)
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NICB Abkuerzung
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Beikoku Sangyō Kyōgikai
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Beikoku Sangyō Kyōgikai
NICB
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Zenkoku Sangyō Kyōgikai
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Zenkoku Sangyō Kyōgikai
全国産業調査会
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全国産業調査会
Beikoku Sangyō Kyōgikai
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Beikoku Sangyō Kyōgikai
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Conference Board
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The National Industrial Conference Board was established in 1916 by eleven of the United States' major trade associations. The employer representatives attending the NICB's founding convention were seeking to formulate a collective response to the industrial unrest of the World War I era. In its original statement of purpose the NICB claimed that it intended to work to maintain "harmonious relationships between employer and employees and between both labor and government." Even though many of NICB's founding members were affiliated with the "open shop movement" they were by 1916 willing to sit down with the American Federation of Labor and discuss issues of common concern. These included industrial safety, vocational training, and unemployment. The NICB was divided over the issue of union recognition and therefore avoided taking a position on collective bargaining. However, Magnus Alexander, the NICB's first president, who spent many years as a personnel officer with General Electric, believed that the trade union movement had become a permanent fixture in American life and that employers should attempt to increase their bargaining power by organizing themselves into trade associations and affiliating with organizations like the Conference Board.
The Conference Board operated on the basis of consensus and voluntary agreement. If a representative of a member trade association did not agree with the organization's stated positions, they were free to oppose them. The NICB was, therefore, able to embrace the twin banners of employer unity and labor reform. Beginning in 1916, the NICB began holding annual meetings which became known as Yama Conferences, since the first was held on the Yama farm in New York State's Catskill region. At these meetings, NICB members discussed economic and social issues of the day and attempted to develop a consensus which would define the organization's positions.
As part of this process the NICB's staff experts began to compile a number of economic and sociological reports on contemporary issues. Ther first of these, completed in 1917, focused on the structural weakness of the workmen's compensation laws and on health and social insurance. Over the years the NICB became a spokesman for the so-called progressive wing of the business community. As part of its ongoing function as a lobbying group and publicist for American business, it produced hundreds of research reports on economic and social issues facing the United States.
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Absenteeism (Labor)
Affirmative action programs
Antitrust law
Arbitration, Industrial
Automobile industry and trade
Banks and banking
Business and politics
Business enterprises
Business enterprises
Business planning
Chemical industry
Civil defense
Collective bargaining
Corporate reorganization
Corporations
Credit
Directors of corporations
Directors of corporations
Economic development
Employee fringe benefit
Employee representation
Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc.
Employee stock ownership
Employers' associations
Executives
Foreign trade and employment
Foreign trade regulation
Health insurance
House organs
Industrial organization
Industrial policy
Industrial relations
Industrial safety
Unemployment insurance
Iron industry and trade
Iron and steel workers
Labor productivity
Labor supply
Manual training
Mediation and conciliation
Nuclear industry
Old age pensions
Open and closed shop
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Personnel management
Price regulation
Reconstruction (1939-1951)
Retirement income
Right to labor
Rubber industry and trade
Sales management
Steel industry and trade
Suggestion systems
Textile industry
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Vacations, Employee
Vocational education
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World War, 1939-1945
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