Evening star., 1953-08-20

yer c. Short, Joseph Young.
the departments veteran per-
sonnel director, who will retire
at the end of the month. Mr..
Short will be retained on a con-
sultant basis, starting next
month, to take charge of the
program.
Details Of the program have
not yet been worked out. How
ever, it's expected that greater
employe incentives will be de-
veloped in the way of more
liberal cash awards, opportunity
for advancement and recognition
for outstanding performance.
The department will offer strong
assurances to employees through
positive personnel actions that
civil service job protection rights
will not be violated and that
greater teamwork will be
achieved, officials say.
One top administration oflcia!
said employe morale is one OF
the most urgent problems fac
ing the Eisenhower regime. He
declared that maximum eff
cheney in Government operation
cannot be achieved under the
present circumstances. The
combination of heavy economy
layofs and demotionS plus the
antagonistic attitude of some
officials toward their employees
have caused employe morale to
deteriorate noticeably in Fed
eral departments and agencies
here. Employees are fearful
jittery and discouraged.
Administration officials have
come to the realization that ac-
tions, rather than words, are
needed to convince Federal
workers they will have reason
able degree of job security.
EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT
Meanwhile. Commerce Secre-
tary Weeks has announced an
executive development program
for the department, which will
seek to groom promising en-
ployes in the department for top
executive jobs. John E. Struggles,
a well-known Chicago indus
trial personnel executive, will be
in charge of the program.
The program is the first Of its
type in the Government. MIR.
Struggles will survey all the
bureau in the department
to determine which employees
should be given additional ex-
perience in a variety of jobs in
the administrative field, leading
to their eventual advancement to
top executibe jobs. The emphasis
will be on advancement through
experience, rather than through
lectures and studies.
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JUNIOR MANAG E M E N t.
The Civil Service Commission
has selected % Government
employees to participate in its
fifth Junior Management Intern
program. which begins Septem-
ber IA The program is designed
to develop employees with out
standing managerial talent for
top assignments in Government.
Those chosen we're: Joe Acos-
ia. Lawrence P. Doss, Thomas j:
Gilfillan, John I. Kleffman, Ed
win P. Trainor and Vincent E.
Vanderah, Treasury Department;
James E. Cox, Samuel E. Crouch,
Doris Jane Sundelof and Andre
Woods, Department of Welfare;
Charles r. Odom, Alvin j. Over
by and Arthur Zasada, General
Services Administration; Irving
Keltz, Roland L. Peterson and
Dean H. Weber, Commerce De-
partment; Thomas E. Jackman
and Sydney A. zweibel. Army
Department; James A. Miller and
Clarence M. Richards, Agricul-
ture Department; Elizabeth B.
johnson. State Department, and
Robert M. StultZ, Veterans Ad-
ministration.
REES IN TOWN-Chairman
Rees of the House Civil Service
Committee arrived here yester-
day to spend a week or so delv-
ing into civil service matters.
The Kansas Republican plans
to check the progress of the sub
committees investigating Gov
ernment manpower and civil
service matters, as well as to re-
view the legislative situation and
study bills pending before the
committee for action next year.
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PERSONNEL SOCIETY = In
addition to electing its new off,
GERS for the coming year (the
names of which were published
here previously, the Society for
Personnel Administration has
appointed the following men,
bers to serve on the various COM
mittees: Edward McCrensky,
work group program; Dora Ihle
and Cecil E. Goode, member
ship; o. Glenn Stahl, journal
editor; William T. Mcdonald,
conference planning; Catherine
Coleman, public relations: Ed
ward Deckard, legislative advis-
ory; Winston c. Mcnamara. per-
sonnel research; Richard Snow,
books and pamphlets; Virgil
Couch, Stockberger award; For
dyce w. Luikart, foundation
grants; E. Charles Woods. budget
planning, and Carl Anvil, news
letter editor.
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CAPITAL ROUNDUP - Nor
ris v. Resenbloom, an official in
the Office of Defense Mobiliza-
ton, has written a book, Peace
Through Strength" a study of
Rernard RoTIlch and his views