Fatigue study : $b the elimination of humanity's greatest unnecessary waste. A first step in motion study — John Shaqi
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 fourth provision for rest is really a part of betterment work.
It must be described at some length. This is the Home Reading Box
Movement, which furnishes a definite means for making rest periods,
both at work and at home, attractive and profitable. Before turning to
a description of this, we may estimate the effect upon the worker of
the preliminary work so far done.
Results.
The results of the preliminary work we have done are as follows:
1. The interest in fatigue becomes more vital. We have aroused more
interest in fatigue elimination, and have made it general. With the
establishment of properly distributed rest periods, chairs, seats,
etc., the recovery process becomes interesting. As he knows how
resting improves his working conditions, the worker becomes more
warmly interested in the fatigue itself. It is a very different thing
to talk about the evils of fatigue, or even to see the advantages of
proper rest exhibited in object lessons, than it is to get proper rest
in a specially designed chair for the first time in one’s working
life. Fatigue, which was _an_ enemy, becomes now not only _my_ enemy,
but _our_ enemy--mine, because I recognize it has affected me; _ours_,
because we are fighting it together for our best interests, severally
and collectively.
2. The interest in fatigue becomes more intelligent. Many workers,
especially women, feel that it is to be expected that they will get
exceedingly tired by night; that one cannot expect to do so much late
in the day as early in the day; that stopping to rest is cutting down
one’s output, thus cheating one’s self, if one is a piece rate worker,
or cheating the management, if one is a day rate worker. The worker
now comes to realize that he hurts the management _and_ himself,
when he gets too tired. “It is your duty to rest when you need it;”
that is the fourth slogan. It must be remembered also that the rest
periods provide time for clearer and more intelligent thinking. It is
impossible to come to any valid conclusion when one is working at top
speed part of the day, and in a state of exhaustion the rest of the
time. We have now an opportunity to think, and brains rested enough
with which to think.
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