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Title: The efficient man
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: West, Thomas D. (Thomas Dyson), 1851-1915
Subjects: Success Employee motivation Industrial efficiency Personnel management
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Gardner Printing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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the financial end, and in-stead of all rolling along smoothly to reach the desiredends as if the business were a heavily loaded roller pulledby a fine matched team of strong horses, the effect ismore that of a spavin-crippled mare and a balky mulehitched together as depicted by the cartoon shown withthis chapter. The crippled office mare, finding the balky shop mulewill not pull withit, seeks to be independent in his ownstrength, and to cure his lameness resorts to all kindsof nostrums. These may be the employment of extrachiefs and clerks to elaborately wrap the legs with redtape; originate and use whimsical methods for drivingthe mule; to obey their mandates, regardless of howmany post-mortems must be held by unskilled veter-inarians over its stubbornness and ill production. The sooner there comes the necessary realization ofthe full importance of both ends of a business, theless hitching together of these crippled mares and balkymules will be observable, and some industries come to
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nOMINANCV ()l^~ OriiKATlVES 207 find businesses pulled by barmonious teams of niatcbcdability—teams tbat will more tban ever decrease costs ofproduction, and tbereby more often place credits formerit where tbey are justly due, aside from decreasingthe chances of a firm having the rope cut that holds itfrom sliding- to ruin. Operatives Insubordination and Control of BusinessWithout Responsibility While in several parts of this work we have shownhow far a lax realization of the practical has broughtproprietors to experience inefficiencies in their operativesand overseers, we will here display some instances ofinsubordination and weak supervisory control as by thefollowing that should also be effective in assisting tofurther show whither we are drifting. 1. One of if not the foremost designer of high-classautomobiles and a mechanical genius of national reputa-tion, in seeking to have a large concern make slightchanges in some of his work, suggested that one of thedraftsmen present woul

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