The management of men : a handbook on the systematic development of morale and the control of human behavior . ce with every prospect ofmaterial success. Similar data on the motives behindlabor turnover would point the way to a better solution ofthis most serious industrial problem. Absence Without Leave. In many instances, absencewithout leave represents a certain mental condition theextremes of which are expressed in failure to reenlist onthe one hand and in desertion on the other. It is a reactionagainst a military environment which, for the while at least,has become repellant or which has
The management of men : a handbook on the systematic development of morale and the control of human behavior . ce with every prospect ofmaterial success. Similar data on the motives behindlabor turnover would point the way to a better solution ofthis most serious industrial problem. Absence Without Leave. In many instances, absencewithout leave represents a certain mental condition theextremes of which are expressed in failure to reenlist onthe one hand and in desertion on the other. It is a reactionagainst a military environment which, for the while at least,has become repellant or which has lost its attraction. Fav-orable response can usually be obtained by arousing sober,second thought relative to the causes of the act and itsseriousness if persisted in. The aggregate loss in military service and eflUciency fromabsence without leave is very great. It accounts for a largeproportion of military misdemeanors and work unper-formed. Being largely handled by inferior courts and sum-mary punishments, it does not appear in statistical reportswith the importance which is warranted by the lowering on. t^utiar ib War idlttons (Oisloya/ty,SCIentious Objecforv,??) 1% Figure 44. Comparison of general causes underlying desertion andabsence without leave. REWARD, PUNISHMENT, DELINQUENCY 709 collective efficiency of such widely spread absenteeism. Thefactors having to do with desertions are largely those whichHe behind the more serious cases of absence without leavesuch as come before general courts-martial. How closelythis is true is shown by Figure 44, in which the elementarygroup-causes of these two offenses are compared. Such acondition Is only to be expected, inasmuch as they representdifferent degrees of what is practically the same offense. It will be noted In this comparison of absence withoutleave and desertion that Intrinsic character defects playpractically the same part in both. In respect to war condi-tions such as disloyalty, conscientious objectors, etc., themotive
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