Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

i88 EFFICIENCY METHODS week, for further education, will certainly cause any forms of apprenticeship which may still exist in certain trades to have less and less importance. For some of these hours, at least, will be devoted to technical education, although the proportion of these hours to the whole will need careful dis- cussion. Employers will certainly have consider- able influence in deciding the curricula to be adopted. Meanwhile the direction of some educational curriculum for young workers has already been » adopted in various places as part of welfare work. Employers who are undertaking work with this aim are able to meet the educational authorities very fairly, and to ally themselves with their ideals of education to a very large extent. Inasmuch as most welfare work concerns itself, to some extent at least, with the worker’s life as a human being, who must have human interests as well as technical knowledge and dexterity, welfare activities for the young are likely to include instruction in literature and other humane subjects, rather than devoting all the hours given to continuation of education to trade-training entirely, or even predominantly. The education given will then be free from the re- proach incurred by most employers who show an eagerness for getting workers technically trained at State expense, which is usually interpreted as merely an eagerness for larger “ dividends.” Now scientific managers, whether instituting welfare work or not, approach the whole educational problem at a different angle from that of ordinary