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The Problems of Maintaining Continuous and Full Employment [ 21

within the business enterprise itself and will express its own
TECHNOLOGICAL ECONOMIC AND MANPOWER NEEDS
4HE PROBLEMS THAT THESE PRESSURES RAISE CAN BE SUMMARIZED
under four headings:

s (OW IF EMPLOYMENT IS MAINTAINED CAN THE SOLVENCY OF THE
INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE AND ITS lNANCIAL INTEGRITY BE PRESERVED
and safeguarded through cyclical fluctuations?
s 7HAT IMPACT ON PRODUCTIVITY IS A STABLE EMPLOYMENT OR STA-
ble-income policy likely to have?
s (OW CAN EMPLOYMENT BE STABILIZED IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO
AVOID HARMFUL EFFECTS ON THE STABILITY OF THE ECONOMY ON ITS
DEVELOPMENT AND ON ITS GROWTH )N PARTICULAR HOW CAN EM-
PLOYMENT BE STABILIZED WITHOUT CREATING INmATIONARY FORCES
What will this effect be on adaptability of the economy and
OF THE EMPLOYEE TO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND HOW CAN WE
AVOID ABUSE OF ANY EMPLOYMENT STABILIZATION TO PREVENT TECH-
nological progress and technological change?
s 7HAT IS THE IMPACT ON THE MOBILITY OF THE ECONOMY AND OF
THE INDIVIDUAL WITHIN IT (OW WILL IT AFFECT INDIVIDUAL OP-
PORTUNITIES AND INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT (OW WILL
IT AFFECT THE INDIVIDUAL S ABILITY TO lND A NEW JOB IF ENTERPRISES
are committed to maintaining the employment of present
EMPLOYEES 7HAT ABOUT THE DANGER THAT THE INDIVIDUAL BE-
CAUSE OF hSECURITY OF EMPLOYMENT v WILL STAY ON EVEN WHERE
HE IS NOT BEST PLACED EITHER IN RESPECT TO HIS OPPORTUNITIES IN
RESPECT TO THE CONTRIBUTION HE CAN MAKE OR IN RESPECT TO HIS
ABILITY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL

3O FAR IN THE 5NITED 3TATES ONLY THE lRST OF THESE PROBLEMS HAS
EVEN BEEN CONSIDEREDˆAND EVEN THAT ONLY QUITE SUPERlCIALLY )T
IS MY PERSONAL OPINION THAT THIS REPRESENTS A DElNITE SHORTCOM-
ING IN OUR VISION AND APPROACH AND THAT WITHIN THE NEXT TO