Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-21
This is the Day
of the Job Boss
Nv PredevSe j. Haskia

WHfr HOne u1c DSsu k}fgu Hfs"SA7' h'ipsS"''
than that Of employment management.
Under an industrial organization, such ~
exists in the United States today, skill
full and efficient employment manage
ment hss become essential IN the success
Of the war program and will be equally
SO to the reconstruction program which
will come when peace ~ concluded.
Though employment management of
one sort or another has existed in this
country for 10 years or more and had
in some inst anecs like the Ford factories.
been worked 10 stage of comparative
perfection. nevertheless, the day on when
America aligned herself with the nations
at war against Germany found most of
the industries in tins country handling
the problem in an uDscientihc manner
N soon became evident that speeding
up production could not be effected II
this state Of affairs continued
With the declaration Of war. The gov
ernment began preparation FOR great
industrial offensive Every condition
which impeied or delayed war produc
tion Ind to be eliminated The work Of
the Department Of Labor was greatly
expanded, the War Industries Board,
the War Labor Policies Board. the United
States Employment Service were ere
atcd On the heels of these came the
Employment Management Division, made
n section II the War Industries Board
MISSIONARY WORK
II is the duty of this section to con
vince the big employers If the country
that the cooperation and efficiency e.
sentlal to maximum production can be
achieved only when the proper under
standings between themselves and their
4 Hi Il EI4t
this can bc done only through the medium
of man expressly trained for the pur-
puse--a man who is acquainted with the
needs of both workrnen and admins
traitors. Such man Is the point of con-
tact between the Office and the factory.
He Is the employment manager
Under tho neY dispensation, the enn-
ployment manager is gwen place on the
executive staff and il ~ his firwt duty ~
! organize n department as thorough and
efficient as the sales department or the
accounting department Industries arc
nov demanding workrncn who are com
petenf, intelligent, IN sound health and
who, with proper treatment will form
permanent and contcnted force To get
and hold s,,rh force il the duty n the
employment manager
By inc creation of the employment DC
partrnent the work of the foreman is
changed His duties are no longer 70 hire
and 10 fire lie now has liberty 70 be-
come an expert in shop process AZ the
same time the foreman losse his ancient
privilege TO sell Jobs ~ prosert pets and
10 prosecute his enemies
HOW IT WAS or OLD
IN 1913. If Thomas CLANCY found him
self ont Of Job hrs usual procedure was
to present himself at the gate 0f . lac
tory and make inquiry Of the gatekeeper
Unless the factory happened 70 pc one
Of the then rare concerns with an an
ployrnent department, the gatekecper
would reply
Il dunno If thev need hands or not
You'd better ask the foreman that =
him over there with the blue jumper
Well says the foreman, looking mp
from a bundle Of blueprnts, what can
do for You -
Il m hunting JOB
hat can vo'I do
Most anything
Do YOU belong 10 a union
ssYoe
Can von turn 4 lathe
guess 80,
Al this iuncture the foreman might
nave DFtN RdlIEt ~ dfiSNt u ffutCtAOtA -
the general superintendent. As ne turned
he would set Thomas to work with a
wave of the hand or dismiss him with a
similar wave
HOW IT - now.
The same Thomas Clancy, in l9IS-
should he again be in need of job-pre-
sents himself with a ticket from the en-
ploytnent service in the anterooIn of the
employment department He Is gwen a
card TO flll in, shereon he states his age,
his record and his capabilities. lie Is then
called 10 the office of the manager for an
interview
THE foreman OF Shop No. ,, says the
employment manager, glanclng over his
indexes, tells me he has need Of tool
maker who can read from blue print speci-
fcatlons. Can you fll that Job p
Thomas either can or cannot. In the
latter event a job suited TO his skill and
| experience is found for him. or he IS sent
back to the Employment Service as mot
available
GETTING WISE THESE DAYS.
Slow, at first, to realize the need Tor
expert employment management, the
EMPLOYERS OF this country are now thor
oughlv alive to it. Enough specialists in
! this line cannot be found to Fill the de-
mandS As long as employment man
cement was a theory rather than fact
! II attracted only few men able to visual
ize its possibilities.
To relieve the situation. the govern
ment last April decided to naugurate q
! course III employment management al
various schools and colleges throughout
/ the country. The experiment was first
tried out at the University OF Rochester
where adjacent industrial conditions
/ seemed 10 present most favorable ma
| terial for study From the outset the
| course was so successful that similar
courses were immediately instituted al
| Harvard and the Massachusetts, Institute
Of Technology Later on they were ex.
| tended 10 the New York Bureau oi
! Municipal Research, the University OF
| California and the University OF Wash
| ington.
The employment management course
| lasts for SIX weeks and the claSa's are
/ limited to . members All students
must be selected or sponsored uy en-
| ployers, aud must be men thoroughly
acquainted With shop conditions. The
student should be familiar with factory
! tools, machinery. equipment and pro-
/ Of factory discipline, and the attitude q
the workman toward his Job, his boss,
| MS fellow worker. and life IN general
| Men with college training arc preferred
| though thus is not essential.
GETTING DOWN TO IT.