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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 EMPLOYMENT C MPLOYING desirable help is probably the most ' important function of an establishment, yet in many concerns very little attention is given to the subject. It is often done in a haphazard manner; employees are selected hurriedly and are not suited for the positions, while others are turned away who would have become valuable assets to the concern. Hiring.?Quite frequently the employment is done by various members of a firm, or by the heads of departments who have given no thought to the employment problem scientifically, ?and the employees include every possible type. Some of the most successful concerns in the country are now managed by men who not many years ago were employed for unimportant positions in the same establishments. Andrew Carnegie made millionaires out of men who started in menial positions, and who afterwards greatly assisted him. Charles M. Schwab, one of them, has followed the same policy, and in a few years converted the Bethlehem Steel Company, which was a financial wreck, into one of the most profitable and powerful concerns in the world. Mr. Schwab made Mr. Eugene Grace, who had been a laborer at the Bethlehem Steel Company, president of that corporation in 1912 at the age of thirty-five. Mr. Schwab claims that Mr. Grace is the greatest steel man in the country, and one of the brightest men in the world. Marshall Field selected partners fromhis employees, some of them starting in small positions. Selection of a New Employee.?Extreme care should be exercised in the selection of the particular employee for each position; keep an accurate knowledge and record of them, help them advance and you will thus be able to develop them for higher positions. Less time and thought is often given to the employment of a twenty dol..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217691703 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217691706 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 130 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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