Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 175 ness and great lack of variety, and that its re- sult is a growing and a deadening fatigue. No one has realised more than those who devote their lives to the practice of the science of management that monotony is a very real and a very serious evil, that it exists in many kinds of work, and that it must be lessened or removed, if the work is to be truly profitable and satisfying. Now the natural and the right method of attacking the problem is to review first, the solution, or pro- posed solutions, of those who have previously con- sidered it. There have been many of these. We might, perhaps, state five. 1. Insistence that there be no standard method of doing the work with a hope that the un- standardised conditions would render the work less tiresome. 2. “Leaving the initiative to the worker.” This is simply another form of refusing to standardise the method, with the hope that the unstandardised conditions will spur the worker to invent a method for himself that will be of interest to him because he has been himself the inventor. 3. Shifting the worker from one type of work