Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 17 termined in the laboratory, the working condi- tions, as well as the motions that make this re- sult possible, are standardised, and the working conditions in the shop are changed, until they re- semble the working conditions in the laboratory. In the same way, the length and periodicity of in- tervals to be allowed for overcoming fatigue, and the best devices for eliminating unnecessary fa- tigue and for overcoming necessary fatigue, are determined during the investigation, and are in- corporated into shop practice. The various measurements taken by scientific management and the guiding laws under which these are grouped determine not only the nature of the human element, but the methods by which it is to be handled. Motion study, fatigue study, the measures supplied by psychology,— these re- sult in the working practice that fits the work to the worker, and produces more output with less effort, with its consequent greater pay for every ounce of effort expended. Through scientific management, then, the in- dividual conserve? is enabled to progress con- stantly and to maintain each successful stage in the development. Scientific management can,