Review of Jobs and the man

Abstract

Reviews the book, Jobs and the man by Luther E. Woodward and Thomas A. C. Rennie (1945). According to the reviewer, the manual is said to be directed to those who will be employing, supervising and counseling individuals with emotional problems. This naturally involves a large number of industrial personnel but no attempt has been made to either survey the present level of their training in clinical personnel work or to develop an ideal set-up, characterized in terms of skills and responsibilities, as a model for the future. Although in general the material is directed toward the layman's point of view and the common denominator of understanding, the text is by no means uniform in complexity or relevance of the material. The reviewer states that we learn that the veterans should be placed in the right kind of jobs and that "understanding" veterans who come back "nervous" helps a lot. Also, they should be "treated helpfully" on the job. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)