In the same way, the assurance of promotion, and the fact that
the worker sees those of his own trade promoted, and knows it is to
the advantage of the management, as well as to his advantage, that
he also be promoted,--this also maintains interest in the work.
THIS INTEREST EXTENDS TO THE WORK OF OTHERS.--The interest is
extended to the work of others, not only by the interrelated
bonuses, but also by the fact that every man is expected to train up
a man to take his place, before he is promoted.
CLOSE RELATIONSHIP OF ALL PARTS OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT HOLDS
INTEREST.--The attention of the entire organization, as well as of
the individual worker, is held by Scientific Management and its
teaching, because all parts of Scientific Management are related,
and because Scientific Management provides for scientifically
directed progression. Every member of the organization knows that
the standards which are taught by Scientific Management contain the
permanent elements of past successes, and provide for such
development as will assure progress and success in the future. Every
member of the organization realizes that upon his individual
cooeperation depends, in part, the stability of Scientific
Management, because it is based on universal cooeperation. This
provides an intensity and a continuity of interest that would still
hold, even though some particular element might lose its interest.
THIS RELATIONSHIP ALSO PROVIDES FOR ASSOCIATIONS.--The close
relationship of all parts of Scientific Management provides that all
ideas are associated, and are so closely connected that they can act
as a single group, or any selected number of elements can act as
a group.
SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT ESTABLISHES BRAIN GROUPS THAT HABITUALLY
ACT IN UNISON.--Professor Read, in describing the general mental
principle of association says, "When any number of brain cells have
been in action together, they form a habit of acting in unison, so
that when one of them is stimulated in a certain way, the others
will also behave in the way established by the habit."[31] This
working of the brain is recognized in grouping of motions, such as
"playing for position."[32] Scientific Management provides the
groups, the habit, and the stimulus, all according to standard
methods, so that the result is largely predictable.
METHOD OF ESTABLISHING SUCH GROUPS IN THE WORKER'S BRAIN.--The
standard elements of Scientific Management afford units for such
groups. Eventually, with the use of such elements in instruction
cards, would be formed, in the minds of the worker, such groups of
units as would aid in foreseeing results, just as the foreseeing of
groups of moves aids the expert chess or checker player. The size
and number of such groups would indicate the skill of the worker.
That such skill may be gained quickest, Scientific Management
synthesizes the units into definite groups, and teaches these to the
workers as groups.
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