Viewpoints on Humanetics. Volume 1.

Wynnewood, PA: The author, 1962. Typescript for the first edition. Quarto, 150 pp. (rectos only). Plain brown folder. Very good.There is a listing for this in the copyright publication list but it was never issued. Richard Wehterill was a fascinating individual. He start his professional life in management training for the big railroad companies back in the 20s. He soon came to a epiphany relating to human behavior that he called "Humanetics." "In the 1920s the late Richard W. Wetherill was given insight into a law of behavior existing in nature and impacting people’s daily affairs without their awareness of its existence. As a result of conforming with that natural law, Wetherill was able to pursue several successful careers in his nearly seventy adult years as a teacher, training executive, author and management consultant. Wetherill called the law of behavior, the law of absolute Right: Right action gets right results, whereas wrong action gets wrong results. The law clearly establishes that right begets right and wrong begets wrong. In the 50s and 60s he was lumped into the New Thought Movement but really his philosophy is Buddhist in orientation. He published his first book (wherein he coined the term Humanetics) in 1952 titled "The Tower of Babel." As the years went on the word 'Humanetics' was adopted by companies and other movements so it was changed to Right-Action Ethic. They are active to this day."In 1946, Mr. Wetherill resigned from the Budd company and became a management consultant so that he could work with smaller corporations and help them grow— which they all did. For the next 13 years the Weidemann Machine Company used his consulting services, during which time the company grew steadily. During his career as a management consultant, he also wrote three books under the general title, The Dynamics of Human Relations. Each was a “how to” book: How To Succeed with People, How To Get Your Ideas Across, and How To Get Leadership and Influence. The three books were published on the same day in 1949 by D. Van Nostrand Co., New York and Toronto. They were placed in U.S. Military Libraries all over the world. In January 1952 Wetherill published the first book outlining his behavioral study which he called humanetics. The book was titled Tower of Babel, and later in the year, his second book on humanetics, Truth Is Power, was published. The Right-Action Ethic grew out of the humanetics study. In 1954, Mr. Wetherill delivered a number of lectures on management principles for the Cadillac Motor Car Division of General Motors Corporation, and in 1958, he conducted a week-long series of lectures for the Plant Management Training Division of the General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan. In 1958, Mr. Wetherill retired from his career as management consultant to devote himself full time [to his teachings]" (E. Marie Bothe). With his insistence on ethics and a higher power/creator is is somewhat surprising that the AA movement never adopted his teaching.