An edition of The efficient man
(1914)
The efficient man
For The Use Of All Interested In The Training Of Minors And Development Of Supervisors To Best Manage Men And Work In Commerce, Manufacture, Transportation And Engineering, to decrease cost of production and living, and prepare man to best prolong his young-old years of servient labor and proficiency
by Thomas D. West
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I
Intellect, Education, Training and Managerial Conditions
Introduction 11
I. Necessary Subserviency of Men to the Domination of Supervisors in Charge 21
II. Functions of a Rational Education for Supervisors 23
III. Awakening the Dormant Intellect and Its Utility in Service 30
IV. Using the Auxiliaries of Intelligence to Manage men 42
V. Value of the Practical versus the Theoretical Man for Overseers 47
VI. Characteristic Ability of Small and Large Men 52
VII. Requisite Health and Strength of "Bosses" 55
VIII Contrasts Between Amateurs and Experts; Absence of Cuts in Learning Vocations 59
IX. Injury of Teaching the Commercial Side of Vocations in the Manual or Trade School 62
X. Prosperity Menaced by Impotency of Parents, Needed Laborers and the Over Reaching 69
XI. The Predominance of the Amateur and the Botch in Industry 87
XII. Specialization Causing Loss of the Vocations' Arts 92
XIII. Conditions Causing Loss of Control in Management 98
XIV. Subsidiaries Hostility to Supervisors Wielding Authority Over Them 104
XV. Proprietors vs. Employees' Realization of Risks and Needs in Training Apprentices 109
XVI. Young Commoners' Opportunities; Power of the Press to Help Create Efficient Men 117
XVII. Needed Realization of Affliction as Well as Skill and Efficiency in the Young-Old 123
XVIII. Chief Developers of the Embryo of Efficiency and Need of True Parents 131
Part II
The Demerits and Developable Efficiency of Supervisors
XIX. Twenty Qualifications Essential in General Supervisors 143
XX. Need of Good Self-control, Balance and Sense in the "Boss" 145
XXI. Efficiency of Self-reliance and Good Judgment 149
XXII. Influence of Dignity and Magnetism 152
XXIII. Majestic Value of Loyalty 156
XXIV. Power of Veracity with Loyalty to Create Integrity 159
XXV. Detractions of Self-importance 164
XXVI. Advantage of Versatility in Supervisors 167
XXVII. Demerit of Bull or Lamb in the "Boss" 169
XXVIII. The Desirable Mean Between the Positive and Negative "Boss" 173
XXIX. Exaltations on Successes Producing Failures. 176
XXX. The Undoing of the Touchy "Boss" 179
XXXI. Tantalization of Whimsical Employees ; Needed Development of Amicable Dispositions 182
XXXII. Importance of the Ability to Forget as Well as to Remember 187
XXXIII. The Good and Efficient "Boss" 190
Part III
Establishing Business, Labor-saving Management, Disciplining Men, and "Safety First"
XXXIV. Functions and Character Required of the Firm's Chief Officials 195
XXXV. Hazards in Starting a Business and the Qualities Desirable for Success 200
XXXVI. Inappreciation of the Practical and the Dominancy of Operatives 204
XXXVII. Pertinency of Help or Position Advertisements ; Character References and Stock Taking 210
XXXVIII. Labor-saving Management and the Utility of Efficiency Experts 217
XXXIX. Demands of General and Detail Supervision of Work 222
XL. Man's Obligation to Respect and Enforce System in All Activities of Work 227
XLI. Dethroning of Production Presidents Responsible for Some Radical Cost Systems 230
XLII. Evils of Nefarious Cliques and 111 Disciplining of Operatives 234
XLIII. Some Reasons for the Retention and Dismissal of Young-olds 241
XLIV. Resultant of an Impractical Age as Seen by the Inauguration of Father-Son Clubs 243
XLV. Handling Men and the Efficiency of Working and Marshaling Supervisors 247
XLVI. Prevalence of Remiss Management; Its Losses and the Salutary Remedies 253
"Safety First" Section
XLVII. Keen Foresight in and Marshaling Supervisors to Prevent Accidents 259
XLVIII. A Card Notation System to Help in the Reduction of Accidents 269
XLIX. Back with the Saloon as a "Safety First" Measure 278
L. The Author's Workaday Experiences and Sociological Achievements, Embodying 24
Fundamental Features Involving "Safety First" Work 287
LI. Index 311-336
Personal Equation Causing Difficulties in Creating Efficient Supervisors 13
Functions in Labor-saving Management and the Training of Supervisors 15
Vital Importance of Specializing in Studies as is done in Business 24
Example of the Technical Information Applicable to a Vocation 26
Authorities Quoted on the Utility Functions of Education 28
Judging of Intelligence and Some Methods for Mental Training 32
Developing Comprehensions of the Marvelous in Nature, and the Achievements of Man 34
An Imaginable Marvel of Wireless Telegraphy 39
The Thinker and His Thoughts 40
Subtle Subordinates of Intelligence Employed to Subjugate Man 43
Some Artifices Utilized in Handling Men 44
Comparisons of Time for Learning the Practice and Technic of some Vocations 48
Unreliability and the Restraint of the Drinking Habit 56
Means for Learning the Technical Theory of Vocations During Days or Evenings 66
Know It All and Belligerency of the Young 71
Pleasure for Man and Something for Nothing the Pap to Catch Votes 73
Need of Efficient Common Laborers for Sanitary Work and for Booms in Business 75
Esthetic Practices and False Pride Reducing Efficiency in Labor 77
Menace of the Scarcity of Common Laborers 78
Brawn Commanding More Wages than Brains 79
Trained Loiterers' Struggles to Escape Work and Justifications of Punishment 80
Machinery Abolishing Hand Labor and Creating Easy Work for the Unskilled 81
Living Beyond Capabilities and Means Will Require the Stepping Down of Some People 82
Necessity of Clerical Workers Having Some Physical Exercise 90
Specialists' Lack of Knowledge in the Full Art of Their Vocation 94
Pathetic Amateurs' Post-mortem Conferences on Defective and New Work 96
Tolerance and Suppression of Intoxicants 100
Reluctance of Operatives to Work is a Test of a "Boss's" Stamina 101
Dull Periods and Disorder Perplexing and Irritating Supervisors 102
Needed Subjugation of Aggrandized Self-importance 106
An Illustration of Supervisors' Laxity in Best Serving Their Employers Ill
Protection for Youths During Their Most Impressionable Years of Adolescence Ill
Filling the Gap of Any Idleness Between Schooling and Working 113
Advisability of Permitting Boys to Go to Work Early and Notes on What is Hard Labor 114
Legislature Looking Toward Filling the Gap Between the Boy's Schooling and Working Periods 116
The Hovel Home as a Breeder of Inefficiency 120
Blending of Work with Some Play — Youth's Call for Companionship 121
The Newsboy's Efficiency Pyramid 122
Inefficiency After Adult Maturity Debarring Sturdy Men from Employment 127
Ten Don't Epigrams for Those to Remember Who Wish to Rise and to Stay Up 129
Period of Man's Greatest Impelling Instinct to Become a Worker or a Loiterer 133
Rejections Necessary of Publication Giving Exalted Prominence to Sporting News 134
The Need of the True Home to Help in the Development of Efficiency in Man 138
Youths Led to Gamble Through the Example and Influence of Parents 138
Twenty Qualifications Desirable in Supervisors 144
Chief Qualifications of Three Dominant Personalities in "Bosses" 174
Ten Eccentric Qualities Exhibited by Some Employees 183
Need of Recognition for Efforts to Develop Amicable Dispositions 185
Destroyers of Tranquility to be Forgotten 188
Five Qualifications Desirable in the Financial Man of a Business 201
Operatives' Insubordination and Control of Business Without Responsibility 207
Dominancy of Labor Dethroning the Potent and Creating the Bluffer "Boss" 208
Questions Involved in Accepting Investments with the Services of Supervisors 212
Necessity of Efficiency Experts Being Skilled in the Vocations They Teach 220
Losses by Shifting Responsibility Under the Plea "It Was Up to Him" 224
Six Special Qualifications Desirable in Detail Supervisors 225
Examples of Farcical Red Taping of Business 232
Baneful Effects of Passionate Usage of the Power of Discharge 237
Consideration in Having Working or Marshaling Supervisors to Do Clerical Tasks 250
An Illustration of Operatives' Indifference to Safeguard Themselves Against Injury 261
Disregard of Safety Appliances Calling for Adjustment by Operatives 261
Example of Carelessness and a Plan for Anticipating and Preventing Accidents 263
Adoption of No Smoking by Employees During Working Hours 265
The Greater Importance of Prevention Over Cure 265
Enactment of Compensation Laws and Heavy Indemnities for Accidents 266
A System That can Give Credit for Prevention as Well as Curing 267
Drinking in Working Hours 279
The Saloon Lunch 281
A Political Party's Plank to Set Back the Saloon 283
A "Back with the Saloon" Resolution 285
A Review of the Author's Literary and "Safety First" Achievements 292
The Author's Leavetaking of Sharpsville, Pa 300
The Author's Instigation of a Sane Fourth Celebration in Cleveland, 1909 302
Twenty-four Fundamental Features Involving "Safety First" and Sociological Work 307
Index 311-336
Cartoon and Halftone Illustrations
The Commoner's Young-old Culmination Firesides Frontispiece
Fig. 2. Virtue Meeting Putrids that Blight 33
Fig. 3. The Thinker and His Thoughts 38
Fig. 4. Face to Face with Courage High 51
Fig. 5. The Sturdy "Basses" 53
Fig. 6. The Way of Decision 57
Fig. 7. Outrivalry of the Considered Great 60
Fig. 8. Escaping the Prods of "The Boss" and Efficiency 63
Fig. 9. Quest for the Easy 70
Fig. 10. A Breach of Father-Son Co-operation 74
Fig. 11. Farm and Parent Left to Wither and Die 86
Fig. 12. Danger of Inactions 90
Fig. 13. Post-Mortem Gathering of the Unknowing 96
Fig. 14. Filling in of Minor's Idle Gap in Studies or Work 115
Fig. 15. Homes of the Negligent and Thrifty 120
Fig. 16. Peacock and Owl Self-reliance 126
Fig. 17. The Impotent Parent 123
Fig. 18. The Hazards of Youth 136
Fig. 19. Lost Control of Senses 148
Fig. 20. Wearing Well Acquaintances 163
Fig. 21. Experimenting to Discover the "Boss" 170
Fig. 22. Beginner's Up-hill Business 203
Fig. 23. Inharmonious Bankrupting Team's Work 206
Fig. 24. Romancing of the Inefficient 211
Fig. 25. Impracticable Age Separation of Kin 246
Fig. 26. Author's Portrait 286
Fig. 27. Safety Emblem U. S. Steel Corporation and National Association of Manufacturers 257
Fig. 28. Safety Emblem National Council for Industrial Safety 257
Fig. 29. A Tragedy of the Fourth 304
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