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Positive, negative attributes seen in industrial
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POSITIVE, NEGATIVE
ATTRIBUTES SEEN IN
INDUSTRIAL GROWTH
MISSOULA-Growth of an industry may result in both positive and negative attributes.
That's the way Robert Prouty, personnel and safety director for the Hoerner-Waldorf
Corp., related the effects of the growth of the paper firm for graduate students enrolled
in a business course at the University of Montana, Missoula, recently.
The business course was designed to delve into relationships between business and
its competitive environment.
UM professors and representatives from Missoula industry
spoke to the graduate students on a team-teaching basis during the course, entitled
"Business and Its Environment."
Describing effects of paper industry growth, Prouty said such growth has created
new industries and jobs for the Missoula area, but added that such growth has also
caused an increase in traffic in the plant area and has added to Missoula's air pollution
problem.
Commenting further on such industrial growth, Jack H. Doty, UM associate professor
of business administration and the instructor for the course, said, "The business and
community relationship is a circular one in which each group affects the other, and
we probe into problems and opportunities that arise from that relationship."
According to Prouty, new jobs also may result in another problem, that of importing
technicians from different geographical areas and having to help them fit in and communicate
with workers already in this area.
In a growing industry, employees are selected with an eye for the type and range
of skills they may be able to master.
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Prouty said that a candidate for a job in the local company must first go through
the process of character screening, aptitude tests and preliminary talks before being
selected for even "dirty work" since that dirty work often is a first step toward other
positions within the organization.. .
Dr. Raymond L. Gold, UM sociology professor, said that how a wife will fit into
the community environment where the husband works must be taken into consideration.
For
this reason a wife may also be invited to job interviews.
Both Prouty and Dr. Gold agreed that most employees are job oriented rather than
community oriented, although industrial leader-s are encouraging employees to participate
in local activities and government.
Within his job, today’s employee, unlike his predecessors, is first interested
in where he fits into the organization before he ponders his pay scale and amount of
security, Prouty added.
Others participating in the course included Dr. Eddie W. Schodt, UM diplomat-in­
residence; Dr. Robert L. Peterson, UM history chairman; Roy Wiberg, technical director,
Hoerner-Waldorf Corp.; and Bob VanGieson, timber staff officer for the U.S. Forest
Service.
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