Marion S. Kellogg

Occupation(s)Management specialist, writerOrganizationsParent(s)Howard S. Kellogg and Helen (Dengler) KelloggAwardsMary Parker Follett Award

Marion S. Kellogg (June 15, 1920 – August 14, 2004) was a management specialist and author who became the first woman vice president of General Electric (GE).^[1]

Born in Rochester, New York, in 1920, she attended Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942, and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, receiving a Master of Science degree in 1944.^[2]

Kellogg's career with GE began in 1944 at the company's general engineering lab in Schenectady, New York. Over the ensuing years, she held a variety of positions with GE related to engineering, physics, management, and marketing. She was GE's individual development methods manager, based in New York City, from 1958 through 1970, and a marketing development consultant from 1970 through 1974. That year, she became GE vice-president of corporate consulting services in Fairfield, Connecticut, a position she held until 1982, when she became vice-president of corporate information systems. She retired in 1983.^[2]

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kellogg served on the board of directors of the Emhart Corporation, Cigna, Citytrust Bancorp, and she was a trustee of Manhattanville College,^[1] and of Goodwill Industries of Eastern Fairfield County.^[2] She held honorary doctorates from Saint Lawrence University, Russell Sage College, Babson College, and Manhattanville College and won a Mary Parker Follett Award for her work, including five published books, on management principles.^[1]

Kellogg died in 2004.^[1]

Bibliography

• What to Do About Performance Appraisal (1965) OCLC 854903080
• Closing the Performance Gap. Results-Centered Employee Development (1967) OCLC 8971204
• Putting Management Theories to Work (1968) OCLC 249674741
• When Man and Manager Talk: A Casebook (1969) OCLC 299884106
• Career Management (1972) OCLC 1086702182

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