During the Great Depression of the early 1930's the McCormick Company made a commitment to its employees to raise salaries, reduce working hours, develop a profit sharing plan and provide other benefits to improve morale and thus production. Employees need to receive recognition and participate in management decisions. The personnel manager is involved with recruiting, selection, hiring, training, progress appraisal, wage determination, morale, counseling, grievance negotiation, working conditions, and benefit programs. It is important to develop leaders for tomorrow who understand human relations in the field of personnel management, which involves psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics.