Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

178 APPLIED MOTION STUDY the remedies recognise it or not, that monotony and habit are in many ways related. There is a fundamental confusion between monotonous ” and “ habitual.” This confusion we all recognise when it is pointed out to us, yet it is strange that so few have ever noted this confusion that really lies at the base of the discussion, now reaching everywhere, as to the 11 monotony ” of work, and its relation to the new types of management. We know, of course, that anything that is habitual is performed with comparative ease and dexterity. We know that habit simplifies. We know that it is the aim of all who desire to become efficient in any line to reduce as much as possible of the daily routine, in fact all of their activity, to habitual action. To the psychologist, habit has always been most important as a field of study, and little by little, all interested in industry have also come to appreciate the great force that lies in habit and its wonderful power for good or evil, as it is properly or improperly directed. We realise that habit cuts down fatigue, that it is easier to do anything that has become a habit, and that it tires one less. We realise that habit cuts out waste, that it allows us to accomplish