INDUSTRIAL TRIAL ADMINISTRATION IN COMMUNIST EAST EUROPE

Industrial org throughout the Communist world reveals certain common features & faces certain common difficulties. The results of a Radio Free Europe study of East Europe are utilized to analyze some of these & a study of the Czechoslovak coal mining industry is used as an illustrative case. Communist control in these industrial fields overlies original org's in the Western mode. Its chief characteristics are centralized bur'tic control for pol'al orthodoxy & weeding out of unreliable managers; one-man leadership combined with a 3-part hierarchy-manag, union & party. The manager is in a difficult position since great pressure for output is placed on him, & he is suspect & ideologically unsavory in Communist soc structure. One-man leadership makes him responsible for results, but the collective controls of union & party render him vulnerable. Various informal & illicit practices have arisen which afford the manager greater security. However this evasion of danger is viewed officially as a threat & an anti-soc act & severely punished. Many of the characteristics of Communist industrial org seem inefficient & contrary to canons of admin'ive set, but when the pol'al goals of Communist society are taken into account these features are more understandable & appropriate. B. Beck.