Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness
Forfatter: L.M. Gilbreth, Frank B. Gilbreth
År: 1918
Forlag: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.
Sted: London
Sider: 220
UDK: 658.54 Gil
Søgning i bogen
Den bedste måde at søge i bogen er ved at downloade PDF'en og søge i den.
Derved får du fremhævet ordene visuelt direkte på billedet af siden.
Digitaliseret bog
Bogens tekst er maskinlæst, så der kan være en del fejl og mangler.
176
APPLIED MOTION STUDY
to another, with the hope that the variety
in the work done will rest the worker and
will make the work interesting
4. Moving the worker from one work place to
another. This is a remedy applied usually
by the worker himself, who leaves one plant
or locality when he becomes tired of it and
goes on to another in the hope of thus find-
ing the longed for interest.
5. Welfare work of different kinds, which aims
to supply the interest lacking in the work
itself.
2\ow each of these proposed remedies is sure
to prove futile, either immediately or in the long
run, for the following reasons. The lack of a
standard method is no insurance of variety, as
the individual worker must, if he acquire any
skill, gradually acquire also a standard method
for doing the work, that is, a method, which is,
at least, a standard for him. Leaving the initia-
tive to the worker by no means insures that he
will take the initiative. If he is not naturally
of the inventive type, he is far more apt to copy
the method of his next neighbour, which is as
likely to be inefficient as efficient. Shifting from