Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT HI one kind of work to another, while it may for the time being interest a certain type of worker, is as likely to disgust another well marked type that has a decided hatred for changing work or work- ing conditions. Moving from place to place, though usually indulged in only by those who crave excitement, is again likely to disgust those who dislike change, and welfare work, while ex- cellent in itself and by far the best of these advo- cated remedies, has small, if any, preventive value. The commendable feature of these attempts is, of course, the feeling that underlies them, that, if the worker is to accomplish the greatest amount of and the best work, monotony must be elimi- nated and the work made interesting. This feel- ing may be promoted by a humanitarian interest in the worker’s welfare, or simply by a desire to get the most out of the worker. In any case, whatever this underlying cause, the results are to be commended. The great difficulty and danger lies in the fact that the fundamental assumption at the base of all the remedies suggested is wrong. This as- sumption is, whether those who propose or use