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E. Personnel Administration Policy.66. MLtiple factors involved in OT personnel administration.The following is an outline of OT 1 s policy in regard to personneladministration. This policy is peculiarly interestingbecause of the vast number of foreign workers in the OT.A reasoned attempt has been made to reconstruct official policyon the basis of available documents. How this policy operatedin practice is discussed in IIIBc (Frontftfhrung)Personnel management was the basic administrative problemof the CT in the West. The variety and extent of constructionwork on which it was engaged at one time (May 1 942 to May 1 944)made demands upon the technical training, mechanical experience,occupational skill and administrative and professional knowledgeof some six hundred different professions, trades and occupationsand upon the muscular effort of over one million unskilled andsemi-skilled labourers of about 40 different nationalities.For instance, the problem of pay scales alone must have turnedthe hair of conscientious officials a premature grey. Only afan all proportion of OT personnel, not exceeding ^£, was paidsimply according to rank. The other