ABSTRACT
By the first decades of the twentieth century, many organizations had Personnel Departments, which initially only performed administrative tasks like recruiting, absenteeism control, transfers, dismissals, promotions, and the like (Stout, 1980; Jacoby 2001). The attention towards employees grew, and the dominance of the engineering approach to organizational problems gradually diminished. Consequently, an ideology whose main emphasis was the human element emerged, displacing Taylorism as the dominant managerial ideology at the beginning of the 1930s.
