With the creation in 1951 of a department responsible for personnel administration, plans to systematize company personnel-related procedures were formulated. Among the plans initiated in 1952 were standardized employee appraisals. It is not known whether these evaluations continued after 1952-1953.

Performance appraisal, 1952-1953, and discipline, 1940, 1954-1957, files of Pullman Company employees. Performance appraisal forms for supervisors and agents list employee name, date, job title, location, dates of birth and employment, and evaluate knowledge of work, responsibility, and initiative, and suggest ways in which the employee might improve. Attached personnel inquiry forms also list marital status, citizenship, place of birth, education, hobbies, and relatives employed by the company. Disciplinary files for individual employees contain correspondence, hearing notifications and transcripts, internal memoranda, etc., and document any disciplinary action taken.

Disciplinary files, 1954-1957, closed for fifty years from date of creation. Other personnel records less than fifty years old open for research with the user’s written assurance that information from the records will be used for statistical or summary purposes only and that no specific names or individually identifiable information will be disclosed.