TO PRODUCE MORE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 August 1921, Page 11

TO PRODUCE MORE.

BRAINS, ORGANISATION, HUMANITY.

(Contributed by the New Zealand Welfare League.)

Some employers think that the call for “more production” is a demand that the operatives shall work harder. What about the employers? Have they all been doing their best during tjie war and since? We have heard of farmers, manufacturers, and other employers, sporting about in their motor ears to all sorts of meetings and pleasures when they ought to be attending to business. If you want better work set the example is a good line to follow. BRAINS IN INDUSTRY. The fact is that as a factory grows in size, something else has to grow with it besides the buildings, the plant, and the staff, and that is the directing brain. Every one has observed cases in which the decline of a given factory has been due to a change in direction, owing perhaps to a son succeeding a father, and a falling off in brain power has inevitably led to a falling off in productive power. This, perhaps, looks a broad and simple proposition, but you will not pursue your studies in economics very fkr before you find that it is precisely this kind of proposition which en- ! tails the biggest consequences. Many of I you will rank in the hierarchy of busi- , nes-j as "little men,” and you may feel discouraged when yon reflect that you have to pit your small plant against the giant plants that surround you. There is no valid economic reason for this discouragement. Everything will depend upon the brains you put into your work. ORGANISATION. Organisation, as the economist sees it, has two sides; (1) technical; (2) human. In these days the latter is becoming more and more important. It is often said, and with truth, that one of the effects of the large scale production was to divorce master and man, to rob industry of any kindly personal relation between those who" commanded and those who had to obey. Workers canie to feel that they were nothing but parts, dehumanised parts, of a machine for grinding out profits for the advantage of an employer whom they rarely saw and to whom they never spoke. To pay attention to the organisation of human beings is of the very greatest importance. Till-: HUMAN ELEMENT.

If you are to organise, for bigger output you must get back into the factory, somehow or the other, this almost spiritual element which has been squeezed out of it by the last 50 years of expansion. Machines may become oven more important than they are to-day, but. you may depend upon it that you will never succeed in turning men into machines. The most sensible and informed leaders of ’labor know perfectly well that they cannot offer labor a. much higher real wage as a result of the socialisation of industry. They make their appeal by saying that they are going to provide a better employer, not a mere efficient producer, but a better employer on the human side. It is useless ( merely pointing out that no State no guild, no Soviet is likely to produce better economic results, since it is not economic results that they are thinking of. If you are to organise for bigger output you must prove a better employer than any substitute which “adjanoed" thought cau sugftoSk

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