The Women's Bureau: Its History, Activities, and Organization

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Johns Hopkins Press, 1923 - Počet stran: 31

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Strana ix - Many cases exist where one service could make effective use of the organization, plant or results of other services had they knowledge that such facilities were in existence. With the constant shifting of directing personnel that takes place in the administrative branch of the national government, the existence of means by which incoming officials may thus readily secure information regarding their own and other services is a matter of great importance. To members of Congress the monographs should...
Strana vii - The greater the work, the more varied the activities engaged in, and the more complex the organization employed, the more imperative becomes the necessity that this information shall be available — and available in such a form that it can readily be utilized. Of all undertakings, none in the United States, and few, if any, in the world, approach in magnitude, complexity, and importance that of the national government of the United States. As President Taft expressed it in his message to Congress...
Strana viii - This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism. Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations of all of its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the Government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time has the attempt...
Strana vii - ... are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to nearly $1,000,000,000 annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than 400,000 persons are required to do the work imposed...
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Strana v - The Federal Service: A Study of the System of Personnel Administration of the United States Government. By Lewis Mayers. 624 pp. $5.
Strana x - ... of plant, organization and work. Through them it will also be possible to subject any particular feature of the administrative work of the government to exhaustive study, to determine, for example, what facilities, in the way of laboratories and other plant and equipment, exist for the prosecution of any line of work and where those facilities are located; or what work is being done in any field of administration or research, such as the promotion, protection and regulation of the maritime interests...
Strana ii - ... administrators and of general educational value. The results of such studies the Institute purposes to publish in such form as will insure for them the widest possible utilization. Officers Robert S. Brookings, Chairman James F. Curtis, Secretary Edwin A. Alderman Robert S. Brookings James F. Curtis R. Fulton Cutting Frederic A. Delano Henry S. Dennison George Eastman Raymond B. Fosdick Felix Frankfurter Trustees Edwin F. Gay Frank J. Goodnow Jerome D. Greene Arthur T. Hadley Herbert C. Hoover...
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