Mr. and Mrs. James S. Wey of Needham, Mass., have announced the engagement of their daughter, Susan M. Wey, to William Colyer Crum, son of Prof. and Mrs. Colyer Crum of Weston, Mass., and Sunapee, N.H.

A September wedding is planned in Needham. Miss Wey, an engineer at Honeywell Electro-Optics Operations in Lexington, Mass., was graduated cum laude from Wellesley College and next month expects to receive an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University.

Her father is with the trust department of Hale & Dorr in Boston.

Mr. Crum, who is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, is a third-year student in the joint J.D.-M.B.A. degree program at the Harvard Law School and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. His father is James R. Williston Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Several times a week for two years, Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at Harvard Business School and practitioners psychoanalysts, was created by the president of a large American group to his supervisor a plush offices of Boston’s skyscrapers. In order to write a biography of the committee, Mr. Zaleznik settle a slight lead chair and begins his tape recorder, and the businessman would talk about his ambitions and emotions, projects, it took declaration of love and its plans.

Hundreds of hours of interviews, history was born a company president, was able to feel like the seduction of power, was forced to make decisions that stirred his sense of fairness. Mr. Zaleznik its theme and spoke about the businessman’s regrets and lessons to learn from its experiences.

But the executive decided at the end of completing the book. ”I think there were some ambivalence about him, because he knew he was not able to be on a podium,’’said Zaleznik. Unfortunately,”I do not think he understands the importance of his life.”

The psycho-biographies aside for typical problems related to the review of the personalities of leaders: They are not always willing to discuss or allow the study, as they think. But Mr. Zaleznik persists, try inside the heads of corporate head interviews, observation and psychoanalysis at work.

In order to study on the psychology of the entrepreneur, Harvard University, last month appointed the 59 years of solitary Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership.

The chair is equipped with a donation of $ 1 million by Matsushita Electric Industrial Company of Japan, for the first time a foreign company has stiftete a professorship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Business Administration. The grant is the result of negotiations in 1981 by M. Zaleznik and a colleague who went to Japan for funding is requested.

”In the past 25 years, emphasis on Business Schools was to improve the technical skills of students so that they can better financial analysts, statisticians better, better enforcement of economists’ ’said Zaleznik, in an interview at his Lexington home, Out of Boston. ”We have lost what I believe is an important idea that the execution of an organization with a human dimension. I see this chair as a determined effort to really detail in the centre of an organization.”

Other teachers not to ignore the factors of personality, but a lot of stress management courses organization charts, with lines of the Authority, productivity and rewards. These can be learned, thought, but it is difficult to negotiate someone for a certain type of person.

Professor Zaleznik says, however, that the company’s success is more by the personality of their leaders by how they are organized. The person in charge, he said,”is the instrument by loyalty and morality is created and people are motivated.”Personal relations between the leadership and downstream are more important, he added, that those reports to a staff member. And he said, students can indeed learn how personal relationships.

Professor Zaleznik has isolated the approach of the Harvard Business School, and collected a few eyebrows as if the date was announced. Le”doyen knew very well that this would be a controversial appointment,’’said a person familiar with the decision requested not mentioned.