AUSTRALIAN RECOMMENDATIONS. Vv. 
is in the right place, whether as leader or follower, “ ...... and 
working under conditions of natural environment—tools, rates 
of pay, hours of labour, and periods of rest, superintendence 
and management, future prospects and education that will develop 
and make useful to himself and his employer his best and. finest 
latent abilities dnd capacities.” 
The militaristic and red-tape types of personnel control which 
involve the “mechanical enforcement of rigid rules,” are provocative 
of antagonism and unrest, and cannot much longer survive the 
advance of the broader ideals of democracy. 
The aim should be to develop throughout the Forest Service an 
atmosphere of mutual trust and co-operative enthusiasm. Officers 
should be afforded generous encouragement and all opportunity to 
improve their capabilities of usefulness in the Departments. Credit, 
as well as blame, should be concentrated on the individual, and, 
within the broad limitations of policy, officers should be given every 
possible latitude in initiative and management. 
These things are of greater consequence to the average human 
being even than salary increments. There must be room for growth. 
19. There should be a scientific study of the needs of the staff, leading to 
the development of a comprehensive system of credits, and the devising of a 
procedure calculated to produce a co-operative enthusiasm in work, and provide 
ample opportunity and encouragement. 
20. As far as possible under the administrative policy, officers should 
be allotted individual spheres of initiative in which to work out their especial 
tasks and their own departmental destiny. 
; This supreme human need cannot be overlooked. Personal 
distinction and pride in work constitute the strength of life. 
Specialists are always hobbyists. 
21. Personnel control is a matter for scientists. 
I recommend the creation in the new Departments, of 
Personnel and System Bureaux on the lines of the Blackford Employ- 
ment and Emerson Scientific Management Plans, to undertake the 
special work of vocational :analysis, personnel employment and 
management, and the planning of systems. 
In any case, the vocational analysis of cadets and officers who 
pass through the schools should be undertaken, and, if necessary, 
the proposed bureaux could be planned at and launched from those 
institutions. 
22. A system of detailing officers to the Forest Institute, District and 
Head Offices, and other districts should be worked out. Reading courses 
should also be allotted. 
23. District and inter-district conferences should be held periodically— 
the latter at the Forest Institute. 
ORGANISATION OF ADMINISTRATION. 
The reconstitution and extension of the forest staff must be 
preliminary to the reconstitution and extension of the Forest Service. 
A business can develop only as far and as quickly as its personnel 
can carry it. 
Forest management by contract is impossible. The essential 
peg upon which to hang the execution of forest work is a resident 
forest staff. 
