MASTER AND MAN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 90, 9 January 1918, Page 7

MASTER AND MAN

SCIENCE OF INDUSTRIAL . MANAGEMENT. It has of ton been inferred, says "Engineering," that tho military training on the Continent has produced a more slavish typo of man, who carries out his orders with, greater obedienco and corrcctuess, but not so much stress lias been laid on tho necessity when dealing with such a type of man for much morp explicit instructions from tho management. And this point is important, for the training and knowledge required to issue such instructions teaches ■ a more correct view of what dan bo expected from tho workman and tho plant, and results in lower general charges and complaints about work not being carried out. Tlie British method of general direction trains a more selfreliant type, who is showing on the battlefields of Franco to-day his splendid superiority. But can wo not add to tho strength of our own methods by developing for ourselves the good points of others? Abovo all, let us study labour from n Kcientific standpoint, and determine what it can do in a quantitative sense, for it is with this knowledge only that wo can justify charges of persistent and intentional defection *f Jiitv