Fatigue study : $b the elimination of humanity's greatest unnecessary waste. A first step in motion studyGilbreth, Lillian Moller
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Fatigue study : $b the elimination of humanity's greatest unnecessary waste. A first step in motion study
Gilbreth, Lillian Moller
Fatigue; Industrial efficiency; Motion study
The amateur will do best to put all of his recommendations for changes
at the close of the survey. Such recommendations should certainly be
included. The survey maker should note the improvements that occur
to him while making the survey. This he may do on the regular survey
blank, but when writing up the survey, he should put his suggested
improvements in a separate place, for the following reasons: His
suggestions may be good, but may be only a few of possible suggestions.
Reading them _with_ the survey may prevent the reader from thinking
out suggestions of his own. Again, the suggestions, while good, may
be obvious, in which case the reader might consider the entire survey
a record of obvious facts, which, therefore, is of little value; in
which case, while it is well to record them, it is seldom advisable to
include them in the body of the survey. The reader may lose interest
because of the suggestions, and may fail to realize the value of the
record itself.
Another means of making the survey serviceable is to pay strict
attention to the style. This should be the extreme of simplicity
and clearness. Use short, familiar, and necessary words. Use short
sentences requiring no punctuation except the period. In fact, wherever
possible, use a printed form, and write in the fewest possible words
that can include a simple, definite, and complete description.
Wherever possible, make the survey so interesting that it will hold
the attention without effort. This has been done, and can always be
done. Photographs, especially stereoscopic photographs, are of great
assistance; so are charts, or graphs, illustrating the results of the
observation; and tables that will show facts, recapitulations, and
tendencies, at a glance.
The data of the survey may be written up by the survey maker, if he is
clever at such work; if he is not, it had better be written up by some
one to whom he explains it, and who is naturally a clever writer.
The survey in proper form can be used as a force to arouse interest
in fatigue elimination throughout the entire organization. It must
be put in the most attractive form possible. As an illustration of
the possibilities in making dry material interesting, study the
farmers’ bulletins used by the national government and various State
governments, especially the bulletins of Kansas and Wisconsin.
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