Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — Novel Way to Promote Men. [ARTICLE]

Novel Way to Promote Men.

who I think will exactly fit it, I do not go to him and tell him feo," writes a factory executive in System, the magazine of business. “Instead, I find some opportunity to tell him about the job incidentally, perhaps just as one of the problems I am having to meet, and without connecting it with him at all. Usually, if he is as well fitted for the work as I think he is, he gives mean opening to ask him if he would tike to try it—if he himself has not already asked for the chance to-try it. "It is a good deal better, I believe, to let the man-take the job by his own choice this way than just to give him the job. You have his uninfluenced opinion as wel? as your own then as to his fitness for it. And the responsibility for his making good rests on him rather than you. Which means, usually, that he will try just so much harder to make good.”