Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

154 EFFICIENCY METHODS “ The term ‘ betterment work ’ is used, by those who are interested in measured management, instead of ‘ welfare work,’ to emphasize a distinction in thought. Some welfare work implies that it is the gift of the manager to the workers. Betterment work is the same type of work, done with the distinct understanding that what is done is for the good and profit of the organization. It is the due of every member of the organization to have the best resting condition possible. “ Many employers have resolved that, so far as their plants are concerned, needless fatigue must be eliminated. They have resolved that the day is coining when every worker shall go home from work happy in what he has done, with the least amount of unnecessary fatigue, and prepared to go back in perfect condition on the morrow.” 1 In comparison with this, two sentences may be quoted from a recent article in England by the Rt. Hon. G. N. Barnes, M.P.2 “ The lesson is being learnt here, as well as in America, that increased comfort and improved relations mean greater efficiency and more out- put. “ A feeling of revulsion arises within me as I look back upon my own twenty years of workshop experience—the ill-conditioned workshop, the ab- sence of the ordinary conveniences of civilized life, and the sense of humiliation engendered thereby.” 1 F, B. Gilbreth, " Fatigue Study,” pp. 47 and 158. * Daily Chronicle, Dec. 28, 1916.