Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

204 EFFICIENCY METHODS Scientific Management,” also various articles in the C. B. Thompson Collection. There are special articles on the operations in naval shipyards in this Collection, and also in the publications of the American Society of Naval Engineers. “ Concrete Costs ” has already been mentioned as a very complete guide to its own subject. Office organiza- tion is treated in an article by J. G. Frederick and H. S. McCormack in System, vol. xxi. Mrs. Frederick, fired with the excellent idea of introducing some efficiency into domestic affairs, particularly in work where motions can be studied and simplified, has given in her “ New Housekeeping ” very valuable suggestions as to how a modern kitchen can be planned. This will at any rate show, to those who do not take much interest in " pots and pans,” that the range of activities to which scientific method and motion-studies can be applied is extremely large. At present managers in England are not likely to be troubled by the existence of individuals advertis- ing themselves as experts ready to come in and advise about installation of “ scientific ” methods ; but it is possible that they may arise. They seem to have been the most active enemies that the real methods in America have had, and to have done them endless harm. In the Iron Age for January, 1913, Mr. R. T. Kent discusses this prevailing curse and its cure. He observes justly that if an outsider to a business is to be entrusted with any important part of its reorganization, the manufacturers must