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Biography of an Ideal The Beginning of Modern Personnel Administration: 1938-1958
The year 1938 marks the beginning of the era of modern personnel administration. The big test of this phase was to be whether a system conceived for an essentially negative purpose (i.e., the control of patronage and corruption in appointment to public office) could be adapted to meet the needs of modern personnel management.
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