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
13. Employers are learning that the finest and most valuable assets in
their employees are not their bones and muscles; not their intelligence,
training, and experience when they enter the organization; but, rather,
the possibility of development of their intelligence, talents, and
aptitudes. Educators now almost entirely agree that the best and most
serviceable education possible is that afforded by work, provided the work
is intelligently directed and constantly used by those who direct it as an
educational force. Employers are also grasping the great possibilities for
them in this theory. Corporation schools, night schools, special classes,
and many other forms of education inside the walls of commercial and
industrial enterprises are being used to good advantage. In an ideal
economic system, every factory, every store, every shop, every place where
men and women are gathered together for employment should be, in the
higher sense of the word, a school for the development of the very best
human qualities.
Since this is true, who is better qualified by training, by education, and
by experience to conduct this education than the employment supervisor and
his assistants? If he is properly chosen for his work, he has a special
scientific knowledge of human nature; he knows not only the talents and
aptitudes of every member of the force, but also knows the best way for
developing and bringing out these talents and aptitudes. He knows for just
what vocation each one under his tutelage is suited. He knows just what
study and training each one ought to pursue in order to best fit himself
for that vocation.
WELFARE WORK
14. Because of its peculiar relationship to all the employees in the
organization, there is no department better fitted to undertake all of
that activity in connection with industrial life, which is known as
welfare work or social betterment, than that entrusted with employment.
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