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This reduction will enable you to transfer those now employed on work for which they are not fitted, to other work for which they are competent, and to reward exceptional merit and ability by promotion.
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Sherman discusses how reducing staff can allow for better placement of employees in roles suited to their skills, promoting merit.
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