This handbook for personnel directors is designed to help improve the acquisition, selection, development, welfare, and general administration and control of business and industrial employees. Overall objectives and functions of personnel management are considered first. Part 2 (Employment) stresses advance planning; recruiting and interviewing; handling and transfers, promotions, firing, and layoffs; automation in offices; and antidiscrimination laws. Parts 3 and 4 deal with supervisory training, executive development, employee indoctrination and orientation, motivation, on the job training, programed instruction, training films and other training aids, letter writing, telephoning, tuition aid, Federal aid and legislation, communications and meetings, and other aspects of education and training. Subsequent sections are on health and safety; employee problems and services; fringe benefits; wage and salary administration; labor relations; time records and other administrative procedures; and the setting of company rules and policy. Finally, personnel administration is discussed as a way of life and a profession. (ly)