Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 163 4. With his natural strength, ambition and en- durance. The second benefit that Scientific Management confers upon its users is regularity of employ- ment. The manager realises early that it is too expensive a proposition to train a man to become an efficient member of the organisation, and then lose him because of lack of work, or poor ar- rangement of the dull and busy periods. Va- rious methods of providing regular employment are used. Typical of these are 5. Introducing a new type of work, for which equipment and workers are suited, that may be followed during the otherwise idle period. 6. Increasing, through advertising, salesman- ship, etc., a demand for one staple product that will allow of specialising upon the pro- duction of that during light running time. 7. Teaching every employé various allied types of work, so that he may be shifted with ease to equalise the stress and to evenise exag- gerated seasonal labour requirements of the working periods. This in no wise conflicts with the idea of functionalising the work and developing individuality in the workers,