Psychology and manpower policy.

Abstract

A'l invitation by the Division of Personality and Social Psychology to address the 1965 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association was welcome; I have felt a close and continuing affinity with the field of psychology and with psychologists ever since we began our interdisciplinary studies in human resources at Columbia University in the late 1930s. From its inception, the Conservation of Human Resources Project has had on its staff one or more experts from the broad field of psychology-psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, experimental psychology, social psychology. Even a casual inspection of our work, particularly our studies of