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SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 169 nents, it will, perhaps, be better to consider them in the latter more strenuous form. What are we, who practice Scientific Manage- ment going to do about increased fatigue? We will state, first of all, that under Scientific Man- agement fatigue is not increased. This for sev- eral reasons: 1. In many cases fatigue could not be in- creased, and the ordinary type of manage- ment is already resulting in the limit of fa- tigue. 2. Scientific Management believes undue and unnecessary fatigue is the worst form of waste. 3. Scientific Management knows that excess fa- tigue impairs the worker’s capacity perma- nently. 4. Scientific Management, as a result of meas- urement alone, knows that the highest type of welfare, which implies no excess fatigue, alone makes adequate co-operation possible. We maintain, then, that we are not increasing fatigue; on the other hand that, where excessive fatigue exists, we are cutting it down. Let us outline