Personnel Administration Its Principles and Practice (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Ordway Tead

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330650611 ISBN 13 : 9781330650615

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Transform how you manage people with a practical guide to personnel administration. This book explains how modern industry can succeed by focusing on the human element. It argues that successful practice comes from sound principles, careful analysis, and thoughtful application to local conditions.

The author presents a clear framework for building a humane, scientifically informed personnel function. It emphasizes the need for a dedicated personnel department, methods for fair selection and placement, and the use of data to guide decisions rather than guesswork. The text also discusses how to balance efficiency with worker well-being, and why illustrations and careful judgment matter more than one-size-fits-all rules.

- Understand the field: what personnel administration covers and why it matters for every organization.
- Learn how to use job analysis and data to set fair, effective standards.
- Explore how to coordinate across departments and engage workers in improving practices.
- See how to apply principles across different industries, plants, and ownership models.

Ideal for readers seeking a practical, principled approach to human relations in business, from managers to HR professionals and apprentices in the field.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The purpose of this book is to set forth the principles and the best prevailing practice in the field of the administration of human relations in industry. It is addressed to employers, personnel executives and employment managers, and to students of personnel administration whether they are in schools of business administration or already in industry in some executive capacity. But we hope that it will have value, also, for all managers, workers, consumers who are interested to advance right human relations in industry, and to secure a productivity which is due to willing human cooperation, interest and creative power. The field of administrative activity covered by the book includes all those efforts usually included in personnel management; employment, health and safety, training, personnel research, service features and joint relations. And we seek, also, to show the relation of the personnel problems of each corporation to those of its industry as whole, by considering in conclusion the activities of employers associations and the dealings which they may have with organizations of workers on a district or national scale. We may be questioned for our temerity in affirming principles and standard practice thus early in the development of a relatively new field of specialized effort. But these principles grow out of modern knowledge of human nature and its constituent elements not out of transient industrial conditions. Administrators are dealing with human beings personalities whose inherent tendencies and impulses, whose characteristic reactions, whose hopes and aspirations, are being revealed by the study of human behavior. And determination as to how industrial procedure can be best adapted to this human nature which is the animating power of industry, is therefore conditioned primarily by our knowledge of that nature, and a knowledge of the critical p
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1920. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330650611
• ISBN 13: 9781330650615
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 554
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