Review of Personnel Administration

Abstract

Reviews the book, Personnel Administration by Ordway Tead and Henry C. Metcalf (1920). In Personnel Administration the authors are offering the public a most timely book. While they may appear to be somewhat premature setting forth in a systematized manner the "principles" and "standard practices" of a field so new and unformed as that of the administration of human relations in industry, it is in just this respect that the authors are performing an extremely useful service. They have taken the bewildering mass of written material relative to this extensive topic and have subjected it to a critical examination, careful selection and classification before putting it in book form, and so have answered a definite need. It is in this work of expert organization and sifting of the sources rather than in the originality of the data presented in which the writers of this volume have made their greatest contribution. All those interested in producing and maintaining cordial human relations in the industrial world will welcome this excellent text on personnel administration. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)