TY - JOUR
AU - Coleman, Charles J.
AB - CHARLES J. COLEMAN "Does personnel perform a hodgepodge of unrelated, unimportant tasks, or is it the fastest-growing and most important area of management today?" A great deal of speculation exists on the The analysis centered on the results of a significance of the personnel function in series of interviews with thirty-two person­ contemporary organizations. At one ex­ nel administrators in a large eastern metro­ treme, MacFarland sees personnel fulfilling politan area. The interviews averaged over a "trash can" function. He contends that in four hours in length and were supple­ the assignment of duties to the personnel mented by examinations of selected depart­ department, chief executives view the de­ mental records. The thirty-two personnel partment as a dumping ground for un­ administrators represented twenty-three wanted tasks. Thus personnel performs a manufacturing firms in eleven industries, hodgepodge of unrelated, unimportant ac­ two banks, two public utilities, two com­ tivities.! Other authors, however, argue that panies concerned with research and engi­ the horizons of personnel work have broad­ neering, and one mining organization. The ened, its range of activities has grown, and organizations employed from 250 to 7,500 that its directors have increased status and employees locally. The sample included authority.f 
TI - Personnel: The Changing Function
JF - Public Personnel Management
DO - 10.1177/009102607300200308
DA - 1973-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/personnel-the-changing-function-OPJYuxlbeJ
SP - 186
EP - 193
VL - 2
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -