Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 165 ally selecting the workers. The hiring is done by each foreman or perhaps rarely by a man or woman who has a “ knack at it,” “ a fine sense of intuition,” or “ a deep knowledge of human na- ture.” If the placement is successful, well and good. If not, the employé is summarily dis- charged and another selection made. Now, as has been already said, under Scientific Manage- ment there would be an enormous loss in a poor placement and in training an employé who is not fitted for the work. This supplies a very practi- cal incentive to a careful examination of the ap- plicant and a successful placement. It leads to the transformation of such jobs as that of messen- ger boy into training stations or observation sta- tions, where a young applicant may be studied be- fore his line of work is finally determined. It leads also to the utilisation of various tend- ing jobs in the plant as such observation sta- tions. The fourth benefit is closely connected with the third. It is the opportunity for continuous ad- vancement. All organisations of any type that can in any wise be rated as really efficient aim to hold their workers by offering a chance for defi-