Personnel management, principles, practices and point of view [Review of the book Personnel management, principles, practises and point of view

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Reviews the book, Personnel Management, Principles, Practises and Point of View by Walter Dill Scott and Robert C. Clothier (see record 1924-10344-000 ). The new "science in management" has now provided a manual of procedures and practices and a systematic point of view on the subject of individual human adjustments in industry. This splendid contribution of a systematic viewpoint should lead no reader to classify the book as theoretical. Nine-tenths of the content is taken up with descriptions of specific instruments for facilitating human adjustments and careful directions as to how the methods are to be introduced and coordinated. The descriptions of the methods are accompanied by examples of their use in practice. The officers of any concern as well as those professionally interested in personnel work can thus obtain a comprehensive idea of the functions of a personnel department and detailed information of methods for the personal adjustment of a worker-in-his-work. In this early stage of the science of personnel, applied psychologists can hardly be blamed if they treat this highly authoritative book almost as if it were written on tablets of stone. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)