The Psychology of Management eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 318 pages of information about The Psychology of Management.

The Psychology of Management eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 318 pages of information about The Psychology of Management.

Successful management must consider the results of all mental states upon the health, happiness and prosperity of the worker, and the quality, quantity and cost of the output.  That is to say, unless the mind is kept in the right state, with the elimination of worry, the body cannot do its best work, and, in the same way, unless the body is kept up to the proper standard, the mind cannot develop.  Therefore, a really good system of management must consider not only these things separately, but in their interrelation,—­and this Scientific Management does.

RESULT OF PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT IS INCREASED CAPACITY.—­The ultimate result of all this physical improvement, mental development and moral development is increased capacity, increased capacity not only for work, but for health, and for life in general.

WELFARE WORK AN INTEGRAL PART OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT.—­ Strictly speaking, under Scientific Management, there should be no necessity for a special department of Welfare Work.  It should be so incorporated in Scientific Management that it is not to be distinguished.  Here the men are looked out for in such a way under the operation of Scientific Management itself that there is no necessity for a special welfare worker.  This is not to say that the value of personality will disappear under Scientific Management, and that it may not be necessary in some cases to provide for nurses, for physical directors, and for advisers.  It will, however, be understood that the entire footing of these people is changed under Scientific Management.  It is realized under Scientific Management that these people, and their work, benefit the employers as much as the employes.  They must go on the regular payroll as a part of the efficiency equipment.  The workers must understand that there is absolutely no feeling of charity, or of gift, in having them; that they add to the perfectness of the entire establishment.

SUMMARY

RESULTS OF WELFARE TO THE WORK.—­Because of Welfare Work, of whatever type, more and better work is accomplished, with only such expenditure of effort as is beneficial to the worker.  Not only does the amount of work done increase, but it also tends to become constant, after it has reached its standard expected volume.

RESULT OF WELFARE WORK TO THE WORKER.—­This description of welfare of the men under Scientific Management, in every sense of the word welfare, has been very poor and incomplete if from it the reader has not deduced the fact that Scientific Management enables the worker not only to lead a fuller life in his work, but also outside his work; that it furnishes him hours enough free from the work to develop such things as the work cannot develop; that it furnishes him with health and interest enough to go into his leisure hours with a power to develop himself there; that it furnishes him with a broader outlook, and,

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