Abstrakt
How, the, can we summarily characterize the "personnel management" of Cistercian monasteries? The most important factors were apparently the choice of suitable candidates, and their systematic and deliberate identification in the ranks. Also, such personages moved within houses belonging to several generations of one single monastic affiliation line, the transfers being initiated possibly by one or two abbots, in other cases by a group of prelates in superior positions.
Promising candidates, deemed worthy of access to higher offices, undertook a "training period" within less visible houses prior to their appointments to major Order positions.