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The Human Factor in Industry (The Thoemmes Library of Business & Management)
The Human Factor in Industry - The Thoemmes Library of Business & Management Author:L.K. Frankel, A. Fleischer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HIRING AND HOLDING, Continued Selecting The Worker The actual process of selecting a man for a position implies a double problem: first, deter... more »mining as accurately as possible the man who will fit the position, and second, making the position sufficiently attractive to the man to make him wish to secure it and to hold it after it has been secured. In one respect, the employment manager acts as a buyer of service and the prospective applicant is the seller; in another, the positions are reversed and the applicant is the buyer of a given position and the employment manager the seller. While the technique of the employer as buyer has been carefully developed, his position as seller is generally ignored, to the detriment of industry. A workman is valuable in proportion to the degree of spontaneity of effort which he puts into his work. This spontaneity may be fostered by just treatment as regards wages and working conditions, or it may be killed by the indifference of the employer who regards his employe as a mere cog in the machine, to be treated with only such consideration as is absolutely necessary in order to obtain his services. There are four considerations which determine the desirability of the job to the applicant and his continued willingness to work well: (1) Remuneration; (2) Opportunity for promotion; (3) Working conditions; (4) Social advantages. Elements Determining Selection. — If the applicant is to make a satisfactory and satisfied employe these points must be carefully considered, the advantages and disadvantages frankly and honestly discussed, and the importance to the firm and the dignity of the specific work made clear. The high-grade employment manager appreciates the importance of his position as seller, and gives to the app...« less