Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-07
BUSINESS MEN
BEING TAUGHT
HOW TO MANAGE
Employment Management
Course is Taught in Reed
College.

Portland, Ore, April IA course
for business men and women in a
brand new profession evolved large
ly during the war with Germany, is in
progress at Redd college here and
will continue to May 10. The course
is in employment management. 1t
requires a background of business ex-
perience and is aimed to develop ex-
ecutive. ability and knowledge of up
to-the-minute methods in employment
efficiency. The course is being given
with federal assistance and will be
presented at only four institutions in
the United States.
Dr.. Thomas w. Mitchell. at the
head Of the group of instructors CIV
Ing the course. was for seven years
professor of business administration
in the University of Minnesota. More
recently he has had the management
Of employees in Philadelphia. Lebanon,
Pa, and New Haven. Conn.,, with
large industrial organizations and was
! assistant director of the federal en-
ployment management course at Chi
cago. *
Ira B. Cross. professor of labor eco
nOmics at the University of California,
Stephen l. Miller. director of the
school of business administration at
the University of Washington, and
oSVcIdl pIOleSSOTS dL tLceU COlleSe Will
assist in the course
Those taking the instruction are re-
quired to be at least rs years of age
and to have at least a high school edu-
cation and three to five years of good
business experience. The applicants,
also, must possess STRONG personality,
good initiative and resourcefulness
and a sympathetic understanding of
problems affecting the worker" An
| advisory cNfTiffoo q Scoc 1,rnr on,,1s-
cations for! enrolment.
10 produce the maximum amount
of goods, it was found during the war,
hat the abilities of each individual
must be determined so that he might
be given the tasks for which he was
best qualified, that conditions under
which workers were employed should
moral welfare, and that Just wages
should be paid to all. according to
the announcement of Reed college.
AS a result of the Investigations re-
quired to meet these problems vir-
tually a new profession of employment
management. came into being. The
staff of this division of the war indus
Only four courses in employment
management are to be given in the
country, of these being the one
now starting at Reed college. The
dates for the Portland purse were
set as from April 6 to May 10.
The experience of industrial con
Germs in all parts of the country will
be presented in connection with the
course and there will be frequent dis
cussions, led by members. Lectures
on basic problems of labor economics,
business organization and managa-
ment and statistics will be features.
Subjects covered will include abstee-
ism n hardness. associations Of
employment managers. character an
alysis. complaints, cooperation in
management, discharge and voluntary
leaving, discipline. methods of record
keeping. follow-up. hours of work, ia
tigue and rest periods, housing, n.y.
giene and sanitation. interview, job
analysis, job specifications, labor leg
is%lation, sources of labor supply. med
ical aid. medical and physical exam
nations, mental tests. methods Of in
producing department., minimum
wage, relations with foremen and 9TH
er executives. profit sharing. promo
tions, publicity, rating employees, re-
creation. references and recommends
ton, restaurants and lunch rooms, ac-