The sun., 1919-08-17
CANADA MANAGERS
GO BACK TO SCHOOL
Dominion Employment Execu-
tives to Study Problems Of
Personnel Management.
COLUMBIA LENDS HELP
Prof. Cross VIII Have General
Direction Of Courses
at Toronto.

managers back to school. From all over
the Dominion employment executives in
the service Of the largest industries will
assemble at the University Of Toronto
September for three weeks of inten-
slve study in the problems of personnel
management The vast changes that
have arisen In industry rs q result of
the war have given rise to pressins
questions affecting. workers In Canada
as well as in other parts of the en-
plre. Psychology. which played so i'm
portant a part In the personnel problems
OF war. is gaining increased recognition
in the peace time conduct of great enter
prises.
Canada's venture is regarded az a
step in closer relations between the
universities of the Dominion and the
United States. The general direction of
the courses to be given at Toronto has
been intrusted to PROF.. John J. Coss OF
the faculty of philosophy, Columbia Uni
versity. who during the war was a mem
Der OF the Government Committee on
Personnel with the rank OF Lieutenant
Colonel Prof. Coss will also give a
general course In employment manage
ment and industrial relations. Prof.
4. X. Strong of the Carnegie Institute
OF Technology. Pittsburg, win give a
course in psychology as applied to BUSH
ness. Prof Robert NJ. McIver will have
charge OF a course which takes up crit
ical economic problems In the industry
Of to-day.
Aid to SIanaeement.
Of the summer session. said yesterday
that personnel management was becom-
ing more and more important as an ele-
ment Of university curricula. He will
give courses during the coming year in
the Columbia School of Business and in
the department of extension teaching.
Personnel management will form a part
the curriculum of Columbia's newhone
study branch of extension teaching,
work In which will begin in the fall.
Prof. Coss has been appointed chair
man of the committee on vocational
counsel for Columbia University In
this capacity he will consult with stu
dents as to the type of work for which
they are best. fitted and will make a
general study of the employment possi-
bilities for college graduates.
EIoA' SOSS Stdteu tnat the WOrk at
Toronto would consist generally of
special lectures and laboratory work.
Meetings. eighteen In all. will be held
daily except Saturday. and an elaborate
schedule of class discussions has been
worked out.
The general course in personnel man.
agement will include discussion of THE
Man and His job" The Conditions OF
the Worker-Industrial Stability, 10y
n To- se~f|t
istrative Features Of Personnel Manage
ment."
The first topic will slnelude sub-divi-
sions such as helpful and harmful atti-
tudes in business. with the opposing
roles which may be played by capital.
management. labor and the consumer !;
the variety Of human abilities and the
factors in their analysis. the specifica-
tons OF a job, the interrelations of man
analysis and job analysis. with produc-
ton as whole, and promotion order as
part Of personnel specifications.
Care of workers.
The second topic comprehends wages,
Their determination and their part in
keeping the worker satisfied, and the
limits Of profit sharing the efficient limits
Of working hours, shop conditions and
work; scientific management and labor.
eAlib IluuStrldl COnoltlOnS, including
housing. food, education and amusement,
and a discussion OF how federated or in
ternational unions help and harm the
worker and the employer personal re-
lations and the right to organize and
bargain collectively: inside unions and
Industrial participation. with a study OF
English models ana proposals. and the
International Harvester plan English
and American plans for Industrial democ-
racy also will be taken UP.
Consideration Of the third topic will
embrace the scope and organization OF
the personnel managers office, the rela-
ton OF the personnel ONCE with manage
ment and foremen, the employees record
card. containing records OF efficiency and
promotion. A visit to the personnel Of
nces of Toronto plants Is planned for
Saturday. September 20.
This Is the first time that such a
course has been given ut any Canadian
university. and the experiment will DO
watched with national interest both by
employers and workers.
At Columbia It waB said that many
OF the universty's best graduate stu
dents como from Canada More than
loo students from various parts of the
British Empire were enroned in the
summer session. and the Br fish Empire
Club, whose members included students
from every province OF Canada, was
among the most active of the sessions
sectional organizations