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provide an organization through which to work. Efforts to
establish a Turkish Productivity Center through action of the
National Assembly were still underway as late as 1958. Lacking
legal status and adequate financing, the interim Turkish
Productivity Center operated under a 6-member Governing Body of
Ministry representatives. The Center did, however, succeed in
awakening industry and trade to the importance of the productivity
improvement and the need for training in all managerial fields.
250.
Turkey lacked managerial, engineering, and scientific
institutes and had only a small industrial base of owners,
engineers, and technicians, most of whom lacked experience in
industrial management. Technical assistance programs were limited
to industry and concentrated on training, which included seminars
and formal long-term courses, largely conducted by experts from the
U.S. A survey by six American specialists in five regions of
Turkey assessed problem areas and training requirements,
particularly for top and middle management and foremen levels.
251.
A group of four American industrial executives was
recruited to conduct seminars in personnel administration,
production, and marketing, which were given in four regions. The
seminars were supplemented by conferences with top industrial
leaders. Another four-man U.S. team of consultants conducted 3-
month seminars for middle management in all major cities and
Turkish instructors were subsequently trained to continue the
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