Advice On How To Deal With Women Employees

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28679, 1 September 1958, Page 7

Advice On How To Deal With Women Employees

(New Zealand Pres, Association)

WELLINGTON, August 31. Good human relations, always essential in industrial management, are especially so in dealing with women employees, according to advice given in the August Occupational Health Bulletin issued by the Division of public Hygiene, Department of Health. As the number of women in industry is continually increasing, the bulletin gives the results of several surveys on both the capabilities of women and the psychological factors connected with their employment. Women excel, the surveys show, in loyalty if given loyalty in return, retentive memory and ability to perform repetitive tasks, manual dexterity, and colour perception. They are good security risks, prefer sedentary work and respect authority. But women are not as strong as men, have more frequent, though shorter, absences, and there is a greater turnover of staff among them. Women want the following things from tfreir work, in this order: credit for work, promotion on merit, interesting work,

SnJTf inCreas ,? s ’ P leasan t working conditions, job security, advice on personal problems. This list, on the basis of what their bosses think they want, is ln ® very different order. The surveys provided contravsi°<. ry results on mechanical ability, temperament and ease of supervision. From them emerged the followpointers on how women should be handled as employees: ( 1) Don’t tell a woman she is illogical. <2) Praise women more than men. (3) Don’t correct them too (4) Don’t yield to a woman’s (5) Be careful to appear impartial. , (6) Remember that women take things personally.