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 The progressive Office Furniture employee manager exercises great care in the selection of his Office Furniture employee staff. The process of selection usually begins with the inter¬view of the applicant, often followed by written examinations in which abilities and aptitudes are tested. Sometimes physical examinations are re¬quired, as well. After employment, the Office Furniture employee executive, or his department head, will guide the new employee very carefully, for it is during the first few days on the job that his habits and opinions are formed. The employee's first im¬pressions of the company and his associates must be favorable. It is during this period, also, that the new employee meets his greatest discourage¬ments in learning his new work routines. Every¬thing should be done to make his early days pleasant and profitable.
In many Office Furniture employees, an employee receives special training for his new assignments. The training period might extend over several days or several weeks. The employee is taught not only the details of his position, but also company history and policies. Training courses are usually in¬stituted at the suggestion of the Office Furniture employee manager and are under his supervision.
Because the courses of study provided by private business schools and public schools pre¬cede the training offered "on the job," the Office Furniture employee manager has a keen interest in education and more particularly in commercial education.Among the machines available for Office Furniture tabulating use |ight be listed typing, bookkeeping, billing, sort-reproducing, envelope sealing and opening, _ tiffing, tabulating, dictating, addressing, meter-Rng machines, and dozens of others. Reproducing, duplicating, machines, for example, include otocopy, Ozalid, photostat, facsimile, and others, introduction of electronics to Office Furniture tabulating equipnt poses many problems as well as unusual ortunities for the Office Furniture tabulating executive. New hori-z.'iis will be opened. With or without consider¬ation of electronics, each piece of equipment re-res careful study before purchase, in order that ximum return will result from the capital intment. Careful maintenance, whether by the company's own staff or by vendors' representa¬tives serving under contract, is essential. Trade-in policies must be adopted for each type of equip¬ment.
The introduction of tabulating equipment, the application of the principles of electronics, and even such techniques as work measurement, are examples. Certain Office Furniture tabulating func¬tions have been centralized, although the prin¬ciple has not always been extended to all func¬tions. Among the purely Office Furniture tabulating activities which have been centralized by many companies might be mentioned accounting, filing, transcribing, cal¬culating, and messenger services. The advantages resulting from specialized knowledge and the availability of specialized facilities are readily apparent. Probably the greatest advantage arises through the control established over personnel, equipment, and work schedules.
In 1934 he was acting resident of the Indian National Congress and •om 1937 to 1939 premier of Madras, where he orked in harmony with the British governor. .Ithough he had been a foremost supporter of issive resistance, after Pearl Harbor (December )41) he resigned from the working committee of le Congress to advocate support of the United ations against Japan. After the war he rejoined andhi, whose son Devi Das had married C.R.'s wghter. From June 1948 to January 1950 he was )vernor general of India, the last to hold Office Furniture vernor ifore the republic was established. Under the re-iblic he was minister of home affairs (1950-1951) id chief minister of Madras (1952-1954).
Some of the early factories produced nearly all the standard Furniture forms; others special¬ized in one or more, but whether their product was a full line or limited, it was sold in whole¬sale quantities to a new type of merchant, the retail Furniture dealer. At first he referred to his establishment as a Furniture or cabinet warehouse and later as a Furniture store. If located in one of the larger cities he might also have his own factory but he was essentially a middle man and with his coming, direct contact between the maker and user of a piece of Furniture ended.
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