Record Nr.

UNINA9910460716603321

Autore

Kammerer Gladys M (Gladys Marie)

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Lexington, Kentucky : , : University of Kentucky Press, , 1951
©1951

ISBN

0-8131-9465-2

0-8131-6337-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

353.001

Soggetti

Civil service - United States

Public administration

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliographical footnotes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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