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
In Providence, where the work started, the work was, during this
first or starting period, placed in charge of a young man who devoted
considerable time to putting it on a systematic basis. He divided
the city into four districts, each district representing a telephone
exchange district. Routes for collection were made out, and volunteer
collectors assigned to the different routes. Notices of collections
were sent out, and schedules strictly adhered to. Co-operators were,
of course, allowed to keep their magazines in any place or in any
way that they chose, but were urged, when convenient, to place the
collecting home reading box in their respective front halls, near the
front entrance, where, on the day that the collector called, the box
could be emptied by him into the waiting automobile with least possible
delay to him and with the least inconvenience to the household. As
the list of subscribers, or co-operators, has grown, it has been a
simple matter to amplify the routes. The same methods of collection are
maintained.
In another plant, each member of the organization is responsible for
what he can collect, and brings it to the plant himself.
At a girls’ college, where there is a branch, the girls collect the
magazines in the dormitory, or ask their parents and friends to express
what they have finished with, and then box the supply at intervals and
express it on to the selected plants. We recommend this method because
it is so simple.
At the present time the home branch demands a very small amount of time
for operation. “Make it easy for every one,” might well be the motto
of the home reading box movement. The “out” basket and the inter-office
system furnish the solution for the office force. As for the worker
himself, the placing of the box where it will be most convenient for
him has already been emphasized. Choose a place where the worker can
pick the magazines up on his way out at noon or at night, with room
enough around the box to allow half a dozen people to stop, select, and
chat as they turn the magazines over. One must actually see the workers
reading the magazines noon times, instead of, as formerly, losing
consistently at poker to the foremen, in order to appreciate the full
benefits of the home reading box movement. It may seem surprising to
see the workman carrying home two to four dollars’ worth (in original
cost) of magazines each week--reading suited to every member of the
family. But there is really nothing strange about it. This is what he
would always have done had he had the chance.
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