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
You must realize that the problem is different in different cases. What
some people need is general education. Of course, that is what we all
need, but the worker in particular. What others need is specialized
teaching. What still others need is relaxation. All need amusement and
entertainment. We want, of course, to supply what is interesting and
profitable, but the final test is giving the worker the thing that will
please him most, that he will delight to have, that he may increase
his vocabulary and learn to read quickly, for not till then will he
acquire the reading appetite and habit. Give the foreigner who reads
with difficulty the pictures with the simple captions that he can
“spell out.” Give the factory girl the woman’s magazine that will show
her how to trim her hats and fix her dress, and that may give her all
sorts of useful home ideas besides. Give the inventive mechanic the
technical and trade magazine that may supply the missing link in his
invention or suggestion. Give the socialistic worker the “Political
Economy Journal,” that will put his ideas in more logical shape.
Use discrimination in your distribution when you can, but, if you
cannot, put the box in anyway, fill it with reading matter, and _start
something to-day_.
The Home Reading Box and Fatigue.
Not only is the influence of the home reading box upon fatigue
important, but the amount of fatigue existing has a strong influence
upon the home reading box. The home reading box plays an important part
in recovery from fatigue. It is a help to the worker during the time
that he is not at work. It is the psychologist’s task to investigate
the relation of mental fatigue to bodily fatigue, and the proper amount
of mental stimulus to prescribe or allow during the periods when the
body is resting; but it is good practice, while waiting the results
of the psychologist’s investigation to be formulated into industrial
terms, to encourage the worker to read whatever he likes.
The By-products of the Home Reading Box Movement.
There are so many important results from the home reading box movement
that it is difficult to decide which are the products and which are the
by-products. Let us call the product the fatigue elimination for which
we planned, and that results when we establish the home reading box
movement. Along with this come the following:
1. The recognition of fatigue elimination as a vital part of
management. This is secured by numbering the box as a station, by
using the “out” baskets as routing channels, by having the messenger
carry the magazines to the box from the baskets as part of the daily
routine.
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