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Nany industries do indeed have detailed training programs for their own employees; perhaps more often in the white collar field than among blue collar workers, but in either case this is a well-known phenomenon. Professor John Dunlop of Harvard University, when he was talking before the American Bankers Cassock tion here in Washington a week or ten days ago, stressed this point particularly.
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I hinted" particularly when I was talking about collective bargaining, that the engineer might find himself drawn in from the wings into the actual analytical work involved in hammering out the economic decision on wages, fringe benefits, shorter hours, etc.-all within the confines of that particular agreement in the company or the industry. In that sense, I can imagine him being brought in for his technical capacity.
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I believe that the top technical jobs in government can only be performed by people who have had not just an education in science, but have practiced it for many years and then have proceeded up the line. It is possible in mid-career to add management skills to technical skills.
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I might say that some of the poorest managers I have seen in engineering are managers who have been engineers. Some of the worst educational administrators are people who have been teachers.
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I have heard recently there is some concern that computers, because they are being introduced in industrial society on a different basis from other forms of automation, come in so much faster than, let us say, the Bessemer function has come in, as to have a very serious impact on employment. Do you believe this is indeed a possibility in the computer business?
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That is why we say that the machines themselves created additional work. You would not get the additional work, if it were not for that multiplying factor.
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mat is partly due to automation. The housewife now has the automatic dishwasher, the automatic garbage disposal, and many other automatic appliances.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the responsible research agency that has been conducting the field surveys. One ; ~ the Ct1~11~17 of man; Ala; en en the If - end ·- ~1~ I ~' J1L~'L'~-Vt1 ~1~ -~1_ YE Tilde It is analyzing the various methods of loading and unloading goods on the piers.
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The legal people who have entered the government service serve as professionals in the legal work or entered the Federal or state governments as fulltime Civil Service people or judges. They do work on government salaries.
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This has been brought out by both of the speakers today. Yet I think all of us can recall in recent history one or two perhaps particularly gifted generalized men in our own laboratory staffs or in our businesses who are in fact capable of being scientists or managers or engineers, by turn, in the same week.
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Clague; about three weeks ago the Wall Street Journal, I believe, carried a front-page article that inferred there was a surplus ~ ~ a director of a placement service stated full of Do your TV panel program he had three or four files were trying to find jobs. this regard?
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He said, "What I need is one more year at the university in order to acquire the necessary electrical engineering background so that I could get a good job." Any gigantic shift in employment can produce unemployment for specific professions. I am not aware that this has affected engineers yet.
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