The Pink Slip: A Study of Manpower on the Firing Line (Signed by Author)

Offered is a signed and inscribed (by author Bill Longgood) first edition, first printing, of "The Pink Slip: A Study of Manpower on the Firing Line" written by Bill Longgood and Ed Wallace and published in 1959 by McGraw-Hill Book Company out of New York City. A hardcover with dust jacket containing 162 pages. From the inside dust jacket flaps, reading in part, "EMPLOYERS! Do you stand four-square on the firing line? Can you sack the right man from the right job at the right time? Or do you still cling to such an outmoded personnel concept as 'giving a man another chance'? Do you let yourself be panicked by that scare-word of industry - 'morale'? - EMPLOYEES! How is YOUR center of gravity? Can you avoid the pitfalls of Incriminating Evidence, Automated Dismissal, and the Induced Resignation? Here is a book that tells you not how to succeed in business, but how to survive." Signed and inscribed by author Bill Longgood: "For Lou [?] Rissner who has a fine center of gravity. With gratitude for his good works - Bill Longgood." Dust jacket shows small corner scuffs, two small edge chips. The dust jacket is protected in a removable Brodart Plasti-Kleer mylar archival cover.…