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The second edition of Problems and Policies in Personnel Management presents individual case studies, corporation policy statements, and part introductions drawn from experience with a wealth o business firms. Of the fifty-nine cases, almost half are new to this edition; the ten policy statements are new; the nine part introductions are either new or revised. New cases center on contemporary situations which impinge on employer-employee relationships: for instance, in “Equal Employment Opportunity” (Part Six), on the employment and supervision of minority workers. Certainly, the time is overdue to discuss and to proceed with the integration of minority workers into the labor force. Other new cases focus on college, government, and hospital organizations, on student protest, on the increasing importance of the not-for-profit sector of our society. All of the cases, both new and old, reflect the results of research studies which have probed innumerable aspects of group behavior and have brought us to the conclusion that, in many respects, “an organization is an organization of many organizations.”
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