Impact of war on Federal personnel administration, 1939-1945 / Gladys M. Kammerer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kammerer, Gladys M. (Gladys Marie), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil service--United States.

Civil service.

Public administration.

United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University of Kentucky Press, 1951.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

World War II made enormous and unprecedented demands upon the nation's civil service administration. The task of recruiting millions of new employees of almost every skill in the midst of military and industrial drains upon manpower and the necessity of maintaining efficiency and morale jarred personnel agencies loose from peacetime routine. Both the older establishments such as the War and Navy departments and the new war service agencies such as the Office of Price Administration were affected. Gladys M. Kammerer believes that the war effort would have been seriously hampered had not the Civ

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Chapter; I. Introduction: Statement of the Problem; II. Centralization of the Responsibility for Recruitment; III. A New Aggressive Approach to Recruitment; IV. Application of the New Aggressive Approach to Particular Occupational Groups; V. The Deterioration in Standards for Selection; VI. The New Emphasis on Loyalty; VII. Development of Training Policies and Organization; VIII. Development of Training Programs; IX. Increased Mobility Within the Service

X. Intensification of Pressures for Higher Pay: Statutory AdjustmentsXI. Intensification of Pressures for Higher Pay: On the Classification Act and Wage Administration; XII. Controls on Federal Employment; XIII. Broadening Employee Relations Programs; XIV. Administrative Changes and Reorganization of the Civil Service Commission; XV. An Evaluation of Wartime Personnel Administration; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Bibliographical footnotes.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813194653

0813194652

9780813163376

0813163374

OCLC:

682356437