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enjoys.  Others  take  each  individual  employee  as  he
comes  in  and  introduce  him  to  his  future  supervisor,  and
make  him  feel  generally  welcome.  These  methods  are
desirable  and  helpful.  However,  by  far  the  most  fundamental ­
  means  of  introduction  is  the  vestibule  or  introductory ­
  training  school.  Wherever  possible,  new  workers
should  be  introduced  to  their  work  through  the  mediation
of  experts  and  under  conditions  conducive  to  proper
instruction.  The  nature  of  the  vestibule  school  as  a
means  of  preparing  new  workers  for  the  tasks  to  which
they  have  been  assigned  has  already  been  thoroughly
discussed.  Wherever  there  is  a  good-sized  body  of  salesmen ­
  or  saleswomen,  office  workers,  machine  operators,
assemblers,  textile  workers,  or  workers  of  almost  any
kind  engaged  in  similar  work,  a  training  school  is  practicable ­
  and  advisable  and  new  employees  should  be  put
through  a  period  of  conditioning.  The  modern  industrial
situation  has  demonstrated  the  importance  of  this  item
in  employment  work,  and  the  lesson  will  never  be  forgotten. ­

All  employment  work  is  governed  by  a  set  of  forms  or
blanks,  the  -paper  basis  for  all  procedures.  Such  forms
are  quite  essential  for  recording  and  controlling  in  a  uniform ­
  way  each  step  in  the  employment  process.  It  may
seem  desirable  to  give  such  a  set  of  forms  here  as  illustrations ­
  of  the  steps  which  have  been  described;  namely,
the  card  for  recording  the  results  of  the  psychological
tests  (see  Appendix);  and  the  individual  activity  records
(see  Chapters  XXII  and  XXIII).  Besides  these  forms
there  will  be  necessary  the  application  blank,  the  medicalexamination
  record,  the  introduction  slip,  and  the  comprehensive ­
  record  which  is  kept  permanently  in  the  employment ­
  files.  The  exact  character  of  these  records