Social Reporting for Human Resources Administration

In his novel Howard's End, E.M. Forster writes, We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. Well, despite the fact that poets have generally been notoriously interested in the rise and fall of kings, angels, and the higher aristocracies, the field of human resources administration is now witness to a massive influx of statisticians. Their concern is with the development of social reporting methods as management information tools. The lack of much exact information on poverty is a serious detriment to the human resources