Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

188 APPLIED MOTION STUDY the Three Position Plan of Promotion we have not only the true and proved answer to the prob- lem of promotion, but also the means by which efficient placement becomes almost automatic, and a supply of desirable applicants for any va- cant position is constantly available. No sys- tem of placement can hope to succeed unless such a supply of applicants is available. We wish to emphasise then three points: 1. The necessity of attracting desirable applicants. 2. The necessity of holding, fitting, and promoting those already employed. 3. The interdependence of these two. We have never known a better friend of the worker than Mr. James Mapes Dodge, and he was wont to emphasise and demonstrate the bene- fit not only to the employé, but also to the or- ganisation of holding the co-operating employé, and the great and needless loss to the organisa- tion, to the worker, and to society in a constant change of the personnel of the organisation. Now, no organisation can hope to hold its mem- bers that does not consider not only the welfare of the organisation as a whole, but also the wel-