Charles DeLano Hine
Charles DeLano Hine | |
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Born | Vienna, Virginia, US | March 15, 1867
Died | February 13, 1927 New York City, US | (aged 59)
Resting place | Arlington National Cemetery |
Education | United States Military Academy |
Occupation | civil engineer |
Spouse | Helen Underwood |
Charles DeLano Hine (March 15, 1867 – February 13, 1927) was an American civil engineer, lawyer, railway official, and Colonel in the United States Army. He receives academic credit for studying organizations as a separate field, rather than a "smaller sister of sociology.".[1][2][3][4]
Early and family life
Born in
Career
Leaving the Army in August 1895 to enter railway service,
Hine inspected safety appliances for the Interstate Commerce Commission. In 1907 Hine assisted in the revising the business methods of the Department of the Interior at Washington, D.C. Then he was appointed bankruptcy receiver of the Washington, Arlington & Falls Church Electric Railway.
In 1910, Hine became temporary special representative of
On January 15, 1912, Major Hine became vice-president and general manager of the
During World War I, on August 5, 1917, Hine (then living in New York City) was drafted to serve as Colonel of Infantry for New York's
Death and legacy
Hine died in Manhattan in 1927. After a funeral at
Publications
Modern Organization: An Exposition of the Unit System, 1912
In the 1912 article "The unit system on the Harriman Lines" in the Engineering Magazine Hine wrote:
Organization has been termed a smaller sister of sociology, the science of human nature. Industrial organization, including that of transportation and commerce, reflects and typifies in a greater or less degree the sociological development of a people."[10]
His series of articles were republished in the 1912 book, entitled "Modern Organization: An Exposition of the Unit System." In this work Hine also stated:
The greatest present need is an antidote for the unwillingness of men to profit by the previous experience of others. It would be amusing, were it not so expensive, to watch the gropings of many corporation officers for methods to test efficiency. Ignorant of fundamental principles, intolerant of outside suggestions, unable to detect the analogy in other undertakings, they repeat the expensive experiments of the past.[11]
A 1913 review in the
Selected publications
- Hine, Charles De Lano. Letters from an old railway official, to his son, a division superintendent. (1904)
- Hine, Charles De Lano. Letters from an Old Railway Official: Second Series. His Son, a General Manager. Vol. 2. Simmons-Boardman Publishing Company, 1912.
- Hine, Charles De Lano. Modern Organization: An Exposition of the Unit System, by Charles De Lano Hine. Engineering Magazine Company, 1912.
References
- ^ Yehouda Shenhav. "From Chaos to Systems: The Engineering Foundations of Organization Theory, 1879–1932", in: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 564–565
- ^ C.D.L. Hine in Engineering Magazine. Vol. 42 (1912), p. 481
- ^ The Bent of Tau Beta Pi. Vol. 8 (1913), p. 6
- ^ Haridimos Tsoukas, Christian Knudsen (2005). The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory. p. 186
- ^ a b c Hine (1909, Foreword)
- ^ a b Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York since its establishment in 1802: Supplement, 1890–1900. Vol. IV. The Riverside Press. 1901. p. 520. Retrieved 2023-01-21.
- ^ "Charles DeLano Hine". Fifty-eighth Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Seemann & Peters Printers and Binders. June 13, 1927. pp. 133–137. Retrieved 2023-01-21.
- ^ New York, Abstracts of World War I Military Service p. 273, for Charles DeLano Hine
- ^ Burial Detail: Hine, Charles D – ANC Explorer
- ^ Engineering Magazine, Vol. 42. Jan. 1912: 481–487.
- ^ Charles DeLano Hine. (1912) cited in: Robert Scudder Denham. The A-B-C of Cost Engineering. Denham Cost-Finding Company, 1919. p. 66
- ^ The Journal of Accountancy, Vol. 15 (1913). p. 76
Attribution This article incorporates public domain material from: Hine, Charles De Lano. Letters from an Old Railway Official: Second Series. His Son, a General Manager. Vol. 2.