Analyzing Character: The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social LifeBlackford, Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger)
Science
Analyzing Character: The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life
Blackford, Katherine M. H. (Katherine Melvina Huntsinger)
Characters and characteristics; Success
10. When a foreman or other executive can no longer use any man in his
employ, he does not discharge him, but sends him instead to the employment
department with a report and recommendation. Oftentimes the employment
supervisor or his assistant can adjust the matter and return the man to
his position, better fitted than ever to perform his task. It may be that
the executive and not the employee is at fault. On the other hand, it is
often the case that the employment department can take the man so returned
and place him in another department, where he will be happy and efficient.
It may be that the work that he has been doing is suited to him, but that
his executive is not the right kind of personality for him. Whatever the
employment department finds in regard to the man, action is taken in
accordance therewith. In case there is real cause for it, the employee is
paid off and dropped from the rolls of the company.
AID IN MANAGEMENT AND DISCIPLINE
11. Owing to his peculiar knowledge of human nature, it is often possible
for the employment supervisor or his assistant to aid executives in
discipline in their several departments. It has been our experience that
an efficient employment department is not in existence very long before
many executives begin to come in for consultation and to ask the
employment supervisor or his assistant what course to pursue in reference
to some particular man or some particular set of circumstances. This has
been found to be one of the most valuable functions of an employment
department.
SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES
12. Also because of his expert knowledge of human nature, the employment
supervisor or his assistant is often called upon to adjudicate between
executives, between fellow-employees or between an executive and his
subordinate. Disputes and differences of opinion usually arise because
people fail to understand each other. The employment supervisor,
understanding both parties in the quarrel, is usually able to point out
some basis of amicable adjustment and the restoration of friendly
relationship.
EDUCATION OF EMPLOYEES
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