The agrarian system of Moslem India

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Identifikator:: 1804119261

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-188010

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Author:: Moreland, William Harrison http://d-nb.info/gnd/172263670

Title:: The agrarian system of Moslem India

Edition:: 2. ed. Reissue (d. Ausg. Cambridge) 1929; [Reprint]

Place of publication:: Delhi

Publisher:: Oriental Books, Munshiram Manoharlal

Year of publication:: 1968

Scope:: XVII, 296 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter III. The Sayyid and Afghan dynasties

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THE applicant’s POINT OF VIEW 36$ mental of all factors which go to make up the applicant’s point of view is his self-interest. The very fact that he is applying for a position is an indication of this fact. The prospective employee is anxious to improve his con dition, either economically or socially. In order to deal successfully with him, the employer must recognize this fact. It is altogether too easy to overlook it, for the em ployer has his own interests to conserve, and sometimes these interests conflict with those of the applicant. How ever, it may be stated as almost axiomatic that the employer who can ascertain the interests of applicants and identify those interests with his own program is making the most profitable arrangement from every con ceivable point of view. As a concrete example of the application of this attitude the following incident will serve. A young musician of great promise was introduced to the employment manager of a big corporation. This young man was anxious to obtain work and was willing to begin at almost any kind of work. At the time the greatest demand was for automatic-machine work, and the obvious course of the employment manager was to hire this applicant for such work, particularly since he was capable of doing it and had himself expressed a will ingness to do machine work. However, the employment manager had, in the course of the interview, discovered that the young man was a musician who already depended in part for his livelihood upon the use of his hands, and as a result he flatly refused to give the applicant such work. “It is part of my business,” he remarked, “to protect the interests of our employees even when they do not recognize those interests themselves. Sooner or later they will recognize them, and we shall either be blamed or praised. Now, if you were to lose a hand, or a finger,

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