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A BOOKLET issued by the British Standards Institution, "Office Organisation and Practice" (B.S.1100; Part 10; 1943), states in some detail the underlying principles of good office management and clerical organization, and gives practical guidance as to the installation of a system and the technique of office and clerical organization. It is addressed primarily to engineering firms of 250–1,000 employees with offices of 20–100 clerks, but the large amount of basic information on office practice condensed and set out simply in this booklet should be equally valuable to smaller firms in all branches of industry. Sections are included on the planning of systems; the design and use of forms; the use and selection of machines and other devices, with an appendix listing suppliers; accommodation, lay-out, lighting and heating requirements of offices; personnel organization, including the grading of jobs and standards of performance and incentives; training, selection, coordination and control of staff, and methods of inspection of work. Typing is dealt with in a separate section including both selection and training and the pool system, while a further section deals with communications, both inward and outward mail, the use of telephones and messengers. There is a short section on filing and another on sales invoicing. A short bibliography and an index add to the value of the publication.
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Office Organization in Engineering Works. Nature 153, 769–770 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153769b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153769b0