The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-09-21
Covernment Has Established Employ
ment Manager Courses on Large
Scale as a War Measure

on a large scale. War emergency |
courses in employment management
conducted by the employment manage
ment division of the War Industries
Board. under the auspices OF nVe
governmental departments, nave
been arranged for in nine universities
to date. The outline Of the courses
of study was made by Capt Boyd
Fisher, who has general supervision
Of the work. Capt Fisher mas just
returned from the West, where he in
augurated courses in the universities
Of California and Washington.
These courses in employment man
agement are designed to train men
or women who already have basic
experience of at least three years IN
industrial life and factory methods
and who have come in actual contact
with shop problems. Employers OF
labor, particularly those having war
contracts are urged to suggest men
or women from their own organlza-
tions as candidates for these courses
With the increasing tightening OF the
labor situation, it is absolutely essen
tial that large plants have an efficient
central employment department. IL
the Government is to take upon ltselI
the task of furnishing labor when
called upon, it is necessary that that
labor be employed in the proper man
ner. In other words, each man
should be hired to do the thing ne IS
hest fitted to do. In these days every
man counts and there must be no
square pegs in round holes. 1t mas
been thoroughly proved that an ex'
perienced employment manager, IN
charge of all hiring and firing, comes
very near to solving the labor PROB
lem. Therefore it is up to the en-
ployer to place his house in order ana
make the best use Of the men Win
which he is supplied.
The introduction Of the employ
ment manager into industry and the
standardization of the services OF an
employment department is acknoWl
edged to be one of the greatest move
ments now taking place in the manu-
featuring industry of this country.
Courses have been arranged Tor q
Harvard in connection with the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston University, in Boston; Colum
bia University, New York; Universlt
of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y; Cal
negie Institute of Technology, an
the University of Pittsburg, Pitts
burgh, Pa; University OF Washin;
ton, Seattle; and the University
California, at Berkeley
There already have been liz graz
yates from the classes conducted tint
far. Most of these have returned
their own plants and placed in ope
alton department Of employment.
each case where central emplo
ment department is in vogue there
never a thought of returning to Il
old.fashioned hit-or-miss method
hiring men.
The courses of instruction in Il
various schools run from six wee
to two months, and the classes a
conducted by the foremost authoriti
in the country on the various 81
jects covered.
The course of study deals chic
with the problems of employing
management. Brief consideration
given, however, to statistics, lal
ecinomis. and business organlzat
and management. The materials
scented on the subject of employm
management covers the organizat
and equipment of an employment
partment, the employing of work.
the training of the workers, the l
ment of the workers, the control
Working conditions, efforts to k
Tie e. work up to standard, and the
ernmept Of the shop. There are
shsa FggseisS o fbqpIra the course, except
outlay for, ityipg expenses of stud
sanff daBgggt SSllfP fbar books and supp
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