Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

EDUCATION 195 in scientific management itself have been delivered in certain universities, such as Harvard, in the engineering or commercial schools ; and some new text-books on business organizations treat of effici- ency methods. The subject seems hardly yet in the stage at which an elementary text-book is of much value, however ; it is certainly by no means in stereotyped condition, so as to lend itself to formal lessons. There seems every reason why scientific managers should undertake the greater part of technical training of their workers, building on the preliminary work done at school or college ; but it will be mainly or entirely technical training, not education. They have to avoid on the one hand the excessive pater- nalism of the employer who desires that all the supplementary education, technical and humane, when a youth has once entered his works, should be under his jurisdiction and take place in the works,1 and the exploiting selfishness of the employer who lets the State do all the training that the youth gets, and expects to start with all workers possessed of some amount of capacity and experience. While the foregoing pages have been written the industrial world has lost the man who was perhaps in reality the best friend that the movement of 1 See D. Proud, “ Welfare Work,” chapter on Education. This may seem a much less crime than the other extreme is ; but one must remember how stimulating to the mind and imagination is a thorough change in environment and atmosphere. The worker must get right away from the works for some part of his thinking hours. Miss Addams’ chapter on Industrial Amelioration is worth reading again in this connection.