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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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waits for no man. And so Pio-neers utilize time in the best tradition oftheir Triangle—for Fellowship, for Loy-alty, for Service. That will never change.And we are confident, that as they or-ganize to achieve their goals, they willfind more and more opportunities to turnwill and deeds into a wealth of com-munity services that will produce valuenot only for today, but for the future. 17 How can we best evaluate an individuals strengthsand weaknesses relative to management skills?Techniques used in the Bell System assessment programare helping to answer this basic question Assessment Centers HelpFind Management Potential Cabot L. Jaffee, Personnel Research AnalystPersonnel Relations Department, A.T.&T. Co. WM It all started back in 1956 whenDouglas W. Bray, now Director ofPersonnel Research at A.T.&T., begana long-range Management ProgressStudy designed to investigate the fac-tors which determine the progress ofyoung men in management. Candidate pores over individual exercise.
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A major aspect of this study involvedthe use of a number of techniques de-signed to assess the individuals skills ona number of tasks. These included inter-views, paper-and-pencil tests of abilities,observations of behavior in groups understress, an individual work project, andspecially constructed tests of personality. The first assessment center of the Man-agement Progress Study involved collegegraduates recently hired by the MichiganBell Telephone Company and was heldin that state during the Summer of 1956.After witnessing the assessment center inoperation, management people in theMichigan Company questioned whethera program of this type might assist in theselection of Plant Department first lineforemen from the ranks of their non-management employees. In September of 1958, W. G. Garrison,general Plant personnel supervisor, work-ing with the help of Mr. Bray, set up anassessment center in Detroit. This assess-ment center was modeled after the Man-agement Progress Study Center but d

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