Gene Dalton teaching a class at Harvard Business School, ca. 1969.
I wanted to know more about my father-in-law Gene W. Dalton’s scholarship. I have access to databases from a university library, so I searched his name in J-Stor, ProQuest and Business Source Complete. I started with a bibliography of what he wrote. Of course, there is so much more to a person’s life, but I now have a list.
On page 232 of the 1986 book, Novations, Dalton wrote about much more than “career management.” He asked “How do we come to “know ourselves?” How do we determine what we enjoy doing and what we do well?”
His answer jumps out for “History with Jim.” Dalton answered his questions, writing “one approach is to look at our histories. All of us have had hundreds of experiences that have tested our abilities, leading us to discover what we enjoy and what we find boring or distasteful. Not all the relevant experiences have been in work settings; most have probably been outside work. In our home life, in school, in teams, in clubs, in churches, at play, in a hundred settings, we have generated data with which to answer these two fundamental questions about ourselves.”
A little further on page 233, he advised “Accept and enjoy your uniqueness. No one is good at everything, and you don’t have to be.”
The chronological list:
Gene Wray Dalton. Identity and Career Development among Engineers dissertation Harvard University, 1962. [His doctoral advisor was Fritz Roethlisberger (1898 - 1974)]
Gene W. Dalton, Louis B. Barnes and Abraham Zaleznik, The Distribution of Authority in Formal Organization. Boston: Harvard University Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1968. [In 1968, the three authors were professors at Harvard University. Dalton was an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. Louis B. Barnes (1928 - 2009) was a Professor of Organizational Behavior and Abraham Zaleznik (1924 - 2011) was the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Social Psychology of Management.]
Gene W. Dalton, “Influence and Organizational Change” Conference on Organizational Behavioral Models, Kent State University, May 1969. Re-printed in Gene Dalton, Insight and Responsibility: Selected Short Writings, edited by Kurt Sandholtz, Provo: Novations Group, 2000.
Abraham Zaleznik, Gene W. Dalton, Louis B. Barnes and Pierre Laurin. Orientation and Conflict in Career. Boston: Division of Research, Harvard Business School, 1970.
Gene W. Dalton and Paul H. Thompson, “Accelerating Obsolescence of Older Engineers” Harvard Business Review volume 49, issue 5 (September - October 1971) 57-66. [Dalton and Paul H. Thompson (born 1938) collaborated on many articles and endeavors.]
Gene W. Dalton and Paul R. Lawrence. Motivation and Control in Organizations. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc. and The Dorsey Press, 1971. [Paul R. Lawrence (1922 - 2011) was a Professor of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School.]
Gene W. Dalton “Insight and Responsibility: An Uncomfortable Look at the Uses We Make of Insights About Behavior” Commissioner’s Lecture Series, BYU, 1974. Re-printed in Gene Dalton, Insight and Responsibility: Selected Short Writings, edited by Kurt Sandholtz, Provo: Novations Group, 2000.
John T. Todd, Paul H. Thompson, and Gene Dalton. "Management Control of Personnel." Journal of Accountancy volume 137, no. 000002 (February 1974) 34 - 40.
Raymond L. Price, Paul H. Thompson, and Gene W. Dalton. “A Longitudinal Study of Technological Obsolescence.” Research Management 18, no. 6 (1975): 22–28.
Paul H. Thompson and Gene W. Dalton. “Are R&D Organizations Obsolete?” Harvard Business Review volume 54, issue 6 (November - December 1975) 105–16.
Gene W. Dalton, Paul H. Thompson, and Raymond L. Price. “The Four Stages of Professional Careers--A New Look at Performance by Professionals.” Organizational Dynamics volume 6, issue 1 (Summer 1977) 19–42.
Norman C. Hill, and Gene W. Dalton. "Business and the New Egalitarianism” Business Horizons 20, no. 3 (06, 1977): 5.
Gary Jewkes, Paul Thompson, and Gene Dalton. “How to Stifle a Technical Organization in Ten Easy Steps.” Research Management 22, no. 1 (1979): 12–16.
Gene W. Dalton and Paul H. Thompson. Novations: Strategies for Career Management. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1986.
E. William Marek, and Gene W. Dalton. "Managing the Mundane." The Personnel Administrator 31, no. 10 (10, 1986) 59.
Gene W. Dalton, Paul H. Thompson, and W. Norman Smallwood. "Helping Engineers Help Themselves." IEEE Spectrum 23, no. 12 (12, 1986): 43.
Gene W. Dalton, Lee Tom Perry, Jonathan C. Younger, W. Norman Smallwood. "Strategic Restructuring." Human Resource Management volume 35 issue 4 (Winter 1996): 433-452.
Gene W. Dalton. “Building Careers in Today’s New-Old Organizations” speaking notes from Keynote Address at the April 1996 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Gene W. Dalton, Insight and Responsibility: Selected Short Writings. Edited by Kurt Sandholtz. Provo, Utah: Novations Group, Inc., 2000.
Bonnie and Gene Dalton “Bless This House” Ensign (August 1989).
Gene W. Dalton and Kurt Sandholtz. "How Am I Doing?" Executive Excellence 7, no. 5 (05, 1990): 6 - 7.