Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

THREE POSITION PLAN OF PROMOTION 189 fare of the individuals composing that organisa- tion. The Three Position Plan of Promotion con- siders each man as occupying three positions in the organisation, and considers these three positions as constantly changing in an up- ward spiral, as the man is promoted from the lowest position that he occupies and into the po- sition next higher than the highest position that he occupies. The three positions are as follows: first, and lowest, the position that the man has last occupied in the organisation; second, the position that the man is occupying at present in the organisation; third, and highest, the position that the man will next occupy. In the third po- sition the worker occupies the place of the teacher, this position being at the same time occu- pied by two other men, that is, by the worker doing the work, who receives little or no instruc- tion in the duties of that position except in an emergency, and by the worker below who is learn- ing the work. In the second position the worker is actually in charge of the work, and is con- stantly also the teacher of the man next below him, who will next occupy the position. He is