ted, and, in selecting employees, care is taken to select
only those who will work harmoniously and happily with the executives
under whom they are placed.

ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYEES

3. Employees in the organization at the time of the installation of the
employment department are analyzed as opportunity offers. In this way the
supervisor determines whether or not they are well placed as they are, or
whether they have talent and abilities which would make them far more
valuable in some other part of the institution. The analysis of each
employee is made out either completely and in detail or in a general way,
according to his importance, his future possibilities, his probable length
of service with the institution, and other conditions. Clearly a great
deal more time would be spent and a great deal more careful analysis made
in the case of an important executive, than in the case of a day laborer
engaged as a member of a temporary shoveling gang.

These analyses, after having been written out, are filed in folders. Each
employee has a folder of his own, and in this are placed not only his
analysis, but a sheet for the keeping of his record and all letters and
papers referring to him.

SECURING OF APPLICANTS

4. Inasmuch as every live organization is always growing and, therefore,
taking on new employees, and inasmuch, also, as there is a state of flux
in every organization, vacancies occurring for one reason or another, it
is a function of the employment department to secure as many of the most
desirable applicants possible for all of the positions in the enterprise.
Some of these applicants come to the employment department in the natural
course of events, others come as the result of advertisements; still
others because the employment supervisor and his assistant take means to
ferret them out and send for them. Promising young men in schools and
colleges and in the employ, perhaps, of other organizations are kept under
careful observation. Data in regard to them is listed in the reserve file,
and their records, as they come in various ways to the employment
supervisor, are filed with them.

5. Applicants having been secured in these ways, the next step is
carefully to analyze them. Under ideal conditions this analysis is made by
observation, unknown to the applicant, during a pleasant interview. He may
be asked certain questions, not chiefly for the sake of bringing out
direct information, but for the sake of ob