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Introduction.

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 1 –31

The problems of modern industrial relations in the United States have been greatly complicated. The significance of labor costs has achieved a new recognition, and the efficient management of labor has become the most pressing of modern managerial problems. The challenge to modern personnel...

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The background of personnel administration.

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 32 –53

It might be said that, in a sense, modern personnel administration has little history, for it is, in its present form, a comparatively recent development. In another sense, however, its history involves all the long series of stages through which the relationship of managers in industry and those...

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Approaches to the study of industrial relations.

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 54 –72

There are numerous types of problems involved in the phenomena of labor relationships, and profitable approaches are as numerous and varied as are these types. What is most important, therefore, is that students shall recognize each of the most commonly encountered approaches and shall appreciate...

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Statistical tools for personnel administration.

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 73 –100

The problems involved in efficient control of labor power in business and industry include, for the most part, two general types: one, those of individual, personal adjustment; the other, those characteristic of larger or smaller groups of employees. Dealing with groups, adjusting group...

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Job analysis, description, and classification.

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 101 –129

One of the first steps in any extensive personnel program, and likewise the almost essential foundation therefore, is a survey of labor needs, a careful determination of the types of positions and workers to fill them that are required to carry on the business. A majority of all the wide range of...

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Recruitment and sources.

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 130 –158

Recruitment is a positive function, of which the negative counterpart or complement is selection. Recruitment finds workers and makes them available; selection picks and chooses among them to secure those most likely to succeed on the job. It should not be assumed that as a result of job analysis...

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Selection.

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 159 –180

Probably no single personnel function in modern industry has received more extensive attention from students of personnel problems than that involving satisfactory selection of employees. Topics discussed in this chapter include: procedure in selection; induction and follow-up; objectives of...

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Selection (continued).

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 181 –216

Testing has become increasingly important as a selective technique. The use of tests for selection in this country is traceable to the development of intelligence and trade tests in World War I. With the subsequent popularization of intelligence testing, many managers and consultants thought they...

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Training for industry.

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 217 –256

The training provided by industry is properly a function of those charged with personnel management. Determination of training needs, of subjects to be presented, of those who are to do training, can be effectively accomplished only in terms of job analysis and records maintained by the personnel...

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Industrial unrest.

Yoder, Dale

Pages: 257 –291

One important factor in determining how efficiently employees perform their duties is their attitude toward the conditions under which they are employed. If conditions are regarded by employees as unsatisfactory, that fact is likely to be reflected in performance on the job. But how shall...

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