Review of Employee counseling

Abstract

Reviews the book, Employee counseling by Nathaniel Cantor (1945). A book on employee counseling is long overdue. There is considerable activity in this field, although the objectives and procedures of counseling in industry have remained quite vague. Cantor urges a clear recognition that the activities of industry are social as well as economic. The first part of the book states the general problem and traces the development of counseling in American industry. The attempt is made in the second part of the book to give the reader some insight into psychological processes involved in human relationships. In the third part the author discusses the organization of the counseling staff and its relationships with employees, supervisors, the union, and management. There is a selected bibliography on industrial counseling. This book is valuable inasmuch as it helps clarify the objectives and procedures of employee counseling. Someone will write a much better book in a few years, however, after thinking has been clarified through more experience and reflection in this field. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)