Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

36 EFFICIENCY METHODS A Production clerk. B Shop engineer. C Production foreman. Route clerk. Route clerk. Route clerk. Foundry or special material clerk. Costs clerk. Balance-of-stores clerk. Stores clerk. Balance-of-stores clerk. Instruction card men, including time-study and slide-rule men. Schedule clerk. Time clerk. Rate-setting clerk. Piece-work and time- study clerk. Route file clerk. Shipping clerk. Receiving clerk. Production and ship- ping clerk. Order-of-work clerk. Order-of-work clerk. Order-of-work clerk. Recording clerk. Time and cost clerk. Mail carrier and Mail boy. Boy-clerks and assis- tickler. tants. Stenographer. Time boy. Messenger. In each of the articles details are given of the work done by each individual. The general nature of most of their work, particularly stores and instruc- tion cards, will be discussed under Standardization in the various chapters devoted to that subject. The very simple planning department used at the Link Belt Works, Philadelphia, was described in System, vol. xxi. (and reprinted in the popular handbook “ How Scientific Management is Ap- plied ”), by C. Willis Adams. It consisted of five