Institutional Manpower Planning: Rhetoric versus Reality

See Terkel Studs , Working (New York: Pantheon Books, 1972); and Work in America, Report of a Special Task Force to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1973); also see Burack Elmer H. Smith Robert , Personnel and Human Resources (St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1977), Chapters 1–4.

See Lester Richard , Manpower Planning in a Free Society (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1966).

See Wikstrom Walter S. , Manpower Planning; Evolving Systems (New York: The Conference Board, Inc., 1971); and Cassidy Robert E. , “Manpower Planning: A Coordinated Approach,” Personnel (September-October 1963), pp. 35–41.

For example, Hinrichs John , High Talent Personnel: Managing a Critical Resource (New York: American Management Association, 1966); and Vetter Eric W. , Manpower Planning for High Talent Personnel (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bureau of Industrial Relations, University of Michigan, 1967).

See for example, Moore L. F. , Manpower Planning for Canadians (Vancouver, B.C.: The Institute of Industrial Relations, University of British Columbia, 1975); and Doeringer Peter B. , “Corporate Manpower Forecasting and Planning,” Conference Board Record (August 1968), p. 27–35.

Hughes D. B. , “Introduction,” in Bartholomew D. J. Morris B. R. (eds.), Aspects of Manpower Planning (New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., 1971). Also, see Milkovich George T. Mahoney Thomas A. , “Human Resource Planning,” in Yoder Dale Heneman Herbert G. Jr. (eds), Planning and Auditing PAIR (Washington, D.C.: The Bureau of National Affairs, 1976).

See Cassell Frank H. , “Manpower Administration: A New Role in Corporate Management,” Personnel Administration (December 1971), pp. 33–37.

The original version of this statement is commonly ascribed to Tom Porter from Standard Oil of Indiana. Probably the first reference to this concept to appear in the literature was Vetter Eric W. , “The Nature of Long-Range Manpower Planning,” Management of Personnel Quarterly (Summer 1964), pp. 20–37.

Geisler Edwin , Manpower Planning: An Emerging Staff Function (New York: American Management Association, 1967).

A summary of this study, entitled Corporate Manpower Planning, is available from Walker James W. , Towers, Perrin, Forster and Crosby, New York, New York.

Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., ASPA-BNA Survey: Manpower Programs, Bulletin #1192 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 1972).

District of Columbia Personnel Office on behalf of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, Manpower Planning: The State of the Art (Springfield, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, 1973).

Towers Perrin , p. 4. Eighty percent of the organizations in the Civil Service study indicated they were either using or developing a human resource information system. See Civil Service Commission, p. 13.

See Traum Richard , “Manpower Bank and Reward Systems for Professionals,” Personnel (July-August 1973), pp. 19–29. For aspects of careers, see Lee Dyer (ed.), Organizational Careers: Research and Practice (Ithaca, N.Y.: NYSSILR, Cornell University, 1976); and Hall Douglas T. , Careers in Organizations (Pacific Palisades: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1976).