present, it covered a broad spectrum of activities, some of which were extremely technical. As a result, "specialization" was tending to become an increasingly important element in the recruitment of staff and a decisive factor in their career development. I ... A/C.5/38/SR.41 English Page 3 6. Lastly, the relations between management and staff, the primary importance of which had long been neglected in the Secretariat, had changed in nature. The staff members of the new generation were more conscious of their rights and more given to asserting claims than had been their elders and, as a result, the staff associations had become more combative than had been the case a dozen years earlier. Accordingly, the somewhat paternalistic and authoritarian spirit which had characterized relations between the management and the staff was being replaced by an approach based on concerted action between responsible parties. 7. In view of those changes, the new personnel policy must be based on a planned approach which covered all activities pertaining to personnel and permitted the integration of seemingly heterogeneous factors -which were in fact interdependent -namely, efficiency, geographical distribution, sex, age and so forth. Also, the new policy must be developed as part of a pattern of new and more dynamic relations with the staff and must be accompanied by a reaffirmation of the authority of the Office of Personnel Services over all personnel activities. 8. Because personnel management tasks were becoming increasingly complex, the Office of Personnel Services must abandon the old fragmentary approach to problems and instead, as a major component of its new policy, take a comprehensive view enabling it to integrate in an overall plan the essential features of a rational management of human resources: recruitment, career development, staff administration, training, and so forth. The Office had already taken a decisive 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the internal workings of an organization, specifically the United Nations Secretariat, and the changes it needs to make to its personnel policy in response to shifts in the workforce and the need for a more planned and integrated approach to personnel management. The language used is formal and bureaucratic, suggesting a focus on administrative and organizational matters.

**Category**
Employment, Science and technology