Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

210 APPLIED MOTION STUDY is of vital importance in its effect upon the mental condition and activity of the worker. By these means the workers, who are the actual producers of the nation, become familiar in every day experience with motion study and time study instruments of precision and with the results of their use. Such knowledge in the hands of our workers is the means of their being able to take the initiative in acquiring greater skill in all trades and in all life works. This is one of the best forms of industrial preparedness. It must be emphasised that the facts concerning motion study here stated embody not only a program but a record. The actual every day practice of mo- tion study shows these effects upon the worker not only in the intangible results of added interest and a different attitude towards the work, but also in such tangible results as a larger number and a more profitable set of suggestions in the suggestion boxes, better attended and more profit- able foremen’s and workers’ meetings, a greater number of promotions, more co-operation, more reading and study of the science of management, and higher wages earned with greater ease. Motion study has no right to claim all the ben-