The New Profession of Handling Men
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9750620 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meyer Bloomfield (The Vocational Bureau, Boston, Massachusetts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1915 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 121-126 |
| Publication date | 1915-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271621506100118 |
| OpenAlex | W2059054684 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
For more than three years a new type of association dealing with the problems of hiring and developing employees has been at work in Boston.During 1911, the Vocational Bureau of Boston invited fifty men, who had in charge the hiring of employees in large shops and stores of the city and vicinity, to come together and consider the advisability of meeting regularly.As a result, the Employment Managers' Association was started.The aims of this association are described as follows in the constitution:To discuss problems of employees; their training and their efficiency,.To compare experiences which shall throw light on the failures and successes in conducting the employment department.To invite experts or other persons who have knowledge of the best methods or experiments for ascertaining the qualifications of employees, and providing for their advancement.It will be seen that the aim of this new association was to provide a professional medium for the exchange of experiences in a field where little interchange of ideas had taken place; to study the human problem in industry on the basis of fair dealing with the employee.In short, there was a conscious effort to make indus- trial practice square with the dictates of twentieth century en- lightenment.Since the starting of the Boston organization, the cities of New York and Philadelphia have formed similar societies.The present indications are that a country-wide extension of such organizations will take place, because the idea underlying them appears to be fundamental, and in accord with the aims of both industry and social service.If such extension, then, of employment executives' associations should take place, the time is opportune to consider their purposes, and their possible contribution to right industrial relations.Bear- ing in mind the fact that the original effort for such type of associa
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 1972 - 2020 (49) |
| Highly cited | No |