people on
personnel posts in companies have followed a nineteenth century
psychological approach that if a person can't do one
post he can be transferred to another
post to which he is
better "adapted." "
Talent," "
native skill," all sorts of
factors are
given. But if a person with all things considered in the first
place is then found to do badly on that
post, the
second think of nineteenth century
personnel was to
transfer him to another
post and yet another and another. The third think when again he fails is then to
fire him. Transferring under these circumstances is usually not only
wrong for the person but strews the
error all through the
org.
(HCO PL 10 Sept 70)