Saul William Gellerman

Background

Saul William Gellerman was born on the 8th of January, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Education

Saul Gellerman graduated from the University of Missouri in 1949 as a psychology major and in 1950 he received a Master of Arts degree in psychology from the same university. Also, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in clinical and industrial psychology in 1956.

Career

Saul Gellerman served in the United States Army Medical Service Corps during the conflict in Korea. After that, he interned in psychology at Lincoln State Hospital in Illinois.

During the late 1950's, Saul was director of psychological services for Personnel Laboratory, Inc., in New York City. Then he worked at International Business Machines in Armonk as a personnel research associate and then as a manager of personnel research, that post he held from 1959 to 1967. After that, he opened his own business consulting firm, Gellerman Consulting, Inc., which he headed until 1984 in Ho-Ho-Kus with both domestic and foreign corporations as clients.

Gellerman then switched to teaching and was a professor and dean of management for the University of Dallas in Irving from 1984 to 1999. At the time of his death, he was teaching online business school graduate courses for Rushmore University.

Gellerman used his psychology background as a business management consultant and author of books that often dealt with the issue of how to effectively manage employees. Gellerman published fifteen works, including People, Problems, and Profits (1960), The Management of Human Relations (1966), Behavioral Science in Management (1974), Motivating Superior Performance (1994), and How to Manage a Motivation Machine (2000). Besides, he wrote for Harvard Business Review on supervision, managerial ethics, and performance appraisal. He produced management training films on employee relations and motivation for corporate clients.

Achievements

• Saul William Gellerman was an outstanding educator, psychologist and management consultant, as well as a prolific author of books and training films in those areas.

Works

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  • Motivation in the Real World

    (A guide to increasing employee motivation in companies of...)

    1992
  • How People Work

    (Psychologist, professor, consultant, Gellerman shows the ...)

    1998
  • How to Manage a Motivation Machine

    (Here's a book from a high-level consultant that takes on ...)

    2000
  • People, Problems and Profits 1960
  • The Management of Human Relations 1966
  • Behavioral Science in Management 1974
  • Motivating Superior Performance 1994
  • Motivation and Productivity 1963
  • Communicating, Training, and Developing for Quality Performance 1995
  • Cases and Problems for Decisions in Management 1984
  • Gellerman on Productivity: An Annotated Transcript 1973
  • Managers and Subordinates 1976
  • Gellerman on Motivation: Dialogues with Manny Kay 1971
  • Organizing the Organization for Better R & D 1975

Personality

Physical Characteristics: Saul William Gellerman died of complications from heart surgery.

Connections

Saul Gellerman was married to Patricia. They had two sons, Henry D. and Peter W., and a daughter, E. Grace Gellerman.

Wife:

Patricia Gellerman

Son:

Henry D. Gellerman

Son:

Peter W. Gellerman

Daughter:

E. Grace Gellerman

Sister:

Eve Feinstein