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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d on every hand.Few understand the real cause of trouble. All kinds ofreforms are suggested and tried as remedies, but as allevils in life cannot be corrected other than by diggingto the roots it is incumbent on our coming father-sonclubs to face their task with an understanding of all thatis involved in this as far as is possible. If such clubsdo not seek to eradicate the evils that have called theminto existence they may do more harm than good. Now that many have been nonplussed with thethought of a call for a father-son club being necessary,all should endeavor to destroy the seeds that have en-gendered the creation of this impractical age and striveto have us all commence anew a growth of practices andcustoms that will permit the blood of kin to be sufficientin itself to bind father and son in. unity of companionship.The thought of any other elements being necessary mustcause many to have a secret pricking of their consciencethat will make wounds that onlv nature and time canIleal.

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CHAPTER XLV Handling Men and the Efficiencies of Working andMarshaling Supervisors Can yon handle men? is the common parlance gen-erally nsed hy proprietors or managers in talking orwriting to individuals in a desire to learn whether theyhave the quahfications to manage men and work. It isastonishing how few of both mental and manual oper-atives comprehend all that is involved in this simplephrase of four words. This is best realized by givingoperatives, when this is practical, some co-worker to helpthem along with their jobs. Fully half if not more of all operatives are more likelyto do less work with the assistance of a helper, if leftalone by their boss, than they would were they work-ing without him. Few vocations are better to demon-strate this fact than that of the authors, as here thereis much of its manual work which can be done by help-ers as long as there is some one who can tell them whatto do and how and when. There are jobs in founding, such as making massivecastings that

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