Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 13 attack of intensive agriculture or of the labora- tory of the applied scientists; on the contrary, it uses the results of workers in such fields as these to as great an extent as possible. There is a widespread feeling that scientific management claims to be something new, with methods that are different from those used by other conserving activities. This is not at all the case. It is the boast of scientific management that it gathers together the results and methods of all conserving activities, formulates these into a working practice, and broadens their field of application. In handling the materials element, then, scientific management analyses all success- ful existing practices in every line, and synthe- sises such elements as accurate measurement proves to be valuable into standards. These standards are maintained until suggested im- provements have passed the same rigid examina- tion, and are in such form that they may be incor- porated into new standards. Turning now to the field of the human element — by far the more important field — we find that, while there is much talk of work in that field to-day, comparatively little has actually been ac-