Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919. Excerpt: ... LESSON TWENTY-TWO CONDUCTING SCIENTIFIC EMPLOY-MENT Chapter I SELECTION AND ASSIGNMENT The first line of the old recipe, " First catch your hare," applies with force to the employment supervisor's job of selection and assignment. It is impossible to make any selection unless you have applicants. It is difficult to make a selection of desirable employees if you have only an undesirable class of applicants. These are truisms, but they should be borne in mind by the ambitious employment supervisor. These are times of labor shortage in nearly all industries, and the applicants who voluntarily present themselves, if there are any, are the rag-tag and bob-tail of the industrial world, either incompetent and unemployable or confirmed floaters, tramping about from one job to another. Even in times when there is an abundance of labor, the employment supervisor who depends upon those who voluntarily apply, is going about his work in a lazy, slip-shod, and haphazard manner. It is a fact well known to all experienced employers that a really good man is seldom or ever out of a job. Therefore those who voluntarily apply 107 at an employment department at any time may be the least desirable class in the available supply. A wise employment supervisor therefore takes the aggressive. He does not wait for men to come to him, but in various ways he goes out after the kind of men he wants. He discovers, by careful search and analysis, sources from which the most desirable applicants may be obtained. Just what these sources are depends naturally upon the character of the industry, the locality, its distance from great centres of population. Sources vary also, from time to time, according to economic, business and other conditions. This being the case, it is impracticable to li...
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