Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 183 1. Motion study shows the worker a new method of attack. The study has been done with the worker’s co-operation. He has, through the study, learned how a motion problem is attacked, and he can apply the same method of attack to the minutiæ of motions in his own work that the manage- ment has not had the time or the money to investigate. 2. The instruction card by which he works pro- vides related items of interest that occupy his attention and stimulate to investigation. 3. The suggestion box that accompanies the in- stallation of newer methods provides an in- centive for invention that makes him want to devise better methods. 4. The new promotion plan, already mentioned, that accompanies motion study changes means that successful investigation will lead to advancement to the head of the function, to superintendence of some sort, or into the motion study or time study depart- ment. 5. The field of motion study and time study is in need of trained investigators in every in-