Applied Motion Study
A Collection Method to industrial Preparedness

UNITS, METHODS AND DEVICES 29 tific management is not the “ strong arm ” type of man represented by the mate of the vessel of former days, who boasted that he could thrash any man in the entire crew, and often did so for no other reason than to prove his words. In- stead he is a man who knows of the measuring methods of motion-study and time-study, and who can teach, the worker the methods shown on the instruction card. In order to get his best work, and to enlist his zeal, it is usually necessary to pay him a bonus measured by the bonus paid each and every man under him who in turn earns his bonus; and a double bonus if every man in his gang earns the bonus. For example suppose the gang boss received $3.00 per day, and had twenty men working under him, he would be paid, say, in round numbers, 10 cents apiece for each man under him who received his bonus; and, if all twenty men received their bonus, he would receive a double bonus of 20 cents apiece for the entire gang. It can readily be seen that such a plan of man- agement as this will bring out co-operation as would no other plan; and it should be stated here emphatically that there is nothing that can per-