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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 68, 19 March 1908, Page 2

It is seldom desirable to reprimand an employee before others. It injures his self-respect, causes him to resent the criticism, and closes his mind against any good it might do him. To call him aside privately and administer the rebuke is the more effectual way, and the more gentlemanly way. Business authority should not assume the privilege of ruthlessly transgressing the laws of common courtesy of man to man. A reprimand in the presence of others may be the desirable procedure in cas"S where the guilty one has done something which intimately concerns all present— as in the case of an underhanded misrepresentation. But the need of such action is rare. The usual incident of an open reprimand is not so carefully planned. It is merely the thoughtless outburst in a moment of displeasure, regardless of those who may happen to be present. The humiliation resulting from such an incident has no wholesome effect upon the individual, and cannot but serve to lessen his legitimate pride in his 'work. He goes among his fellowworkers with the knowledge that eacb one knows of the incident, and this causes him to feel disgraced and lose a measure of his self-respect. The public word of disfavour *s apt to find an echo in other minds und so turn upon the individual unnecessary and undeserved criticism. .