ABSTRACT

If a man is willing, or even eager, to carry out the preformed decisions of his superiors, but lacks the technical knowledge and the practical skills to do so, the decisions may never be executed at all, and certainly not properly. If he has the knowledge and training, on the other hand, but is vehemently opposed to the decisions he is called upon to execute, the results may be equally disastrous from the point of view of his leaders. It takes both the will and the capacity to conform for a member of an agency to do his job as the leaders of the agency want it done. The Forest Service therefore tries to get people who have both.