Identifier: efficientman00west
Title: The efficient man
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: West, Thomas D. (Thomas Dyson), 1851-1915
Subjects: Success Employee motivation Industrial efficiency Personnel management
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Gardner Printing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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upon to employ from two to four men tosupervise work, production or a department that one manbeing what he should be could do and be more efficient inobtaining the sought-for results than all of the superfluouscombined. Contrasts to be drawn between the high and lowclasses of supervisors are often fairly comparable with thedifferences cited for those existing between the amateurand professional as seen in paragraphs 4 and 5, chapterVIII. When conditions make it necessary to employ fromtwo to four overseers to do what one high-class produc-tion supervisor should accomplish, the ratio of efficiencyto obtain results generally decreases according to the 126 THE EFFICIENT MAN increase in the number of the bosses. They usually getinto each others way to cause confusion and the more orless discordancy that often leads to a serious lack ofharmony and is then a very great handicap in obtainingaccuracy, perfection or any other desired results. The greater any supervisors ability to economically

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Fig. 16. PEACOCK AND OWL SELF-RELIANCE or practically dispense with under-assistant overseers inattaining his desired results, the better from every view-point is it in obtaining perfection and profits. Inefificiency of supervisors, those not understandingthe manual and technical essentials of their business,would not be so deplorable if they could only be broughtto fairly if not fully realize their deficiencies and the Kicirr riiiSKiNi; and jctinc w injury their lack of practical experience may engender intheir business. The greater the increase of inefficiencyin supervisors, the greater the ratio of its growth makesthe lost art the more difficult of recovery. This lastsentence is also applicable to operatives. Inefficiency After Adult Maturity Debarring SturdyMen from Employment Benefits of the power of realization have few, if any,factors to display it more forcibly than special effortsbeing made to impress the young with the urgent neces-sity of their striving to become efficient,

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