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a start, hoping for an early improvement in status. When an 

 opportunity occurs for a transfer to a higher position for which 

 they have already qualified, they should be permitted to accept 

 the better place, with the approval of the Commission. To 

 adjust misfits and correct injustices is a pleasure to administra- 

 tive officers as well as a duty, and it would be a misfortune to 

 have any impediment in the law to doing justice in such cases. 

 If it is suggested that advantage would be taken, if this were 

 permitted, to make undeserved transfers to positions at higher 

 salaries, the answer is that the Civil Service Commission must 

 approve the transfer. It is an open transaction, complaint can 

 be made by any employee who feels that he is injured, and it is 

 very improbable that such cases would occur often, if ever. 



17. SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF PERSONNEL TURNOVER 



The losses in the personnel due to resignations and dismissals, 

 and the transfers from one branch of the service to another, 

 should be systematically tabulated and studied by the Civil 

 Service Commission. There are many causes for such resigna- 

 tions and transfers that are inevitable and proper, and the re- 

 sultant resignations and transfers do not reflect upon the gov- 

 ernment's employment policy or upon the administration of the 

 service. However, resignations or applications for transfer due 

 to inadequate salary, too slow promotion, dissatisfaction with 

 working conditions or with the administration of a particular 

 unit of service should be investigated, and the information so 

 obtained would be of the greatest value in improving the service. 

 This would be a very effective method of locating and correcting 

 unfair or incompetent administration of the personnel. 



Two of the most difficult questions to handle in the proposed 

 new system will be those involving modifications in the classifica- 

 tion and adjustments in the salary schedules. The government 

 is in competition with the industries, the colleges, and all ether 

 employers, and the scale of wages and salaries is partly deter- 

 mined by this competition. Conditions will vary from time to 

 time, and if the Civil Service Commission makes a systematic 

 and scientific study of the government's employment problems 



