pe.[2]
MENTAL DEVELOPMENT.--Welfare under Scientific Management is
provided for by Mental Development. This we may discuss under
habits, and under general mental development.
1. As for habits we must consider
(a) Habits of attention. Under Scientific Management, as we
have shown, attention must become a habit. Only when it
does become a habit, can the work required be properly
performed, and the reward received. As only those who
show themselves capable of really receiving the reward
are considered to be properly placed, ultimately all
who remain at work under Scientific Management must
attain this habit of attention.
(b) Habit of method of attack. This not only enables the
worker to do the things that he is assigned
satisfactorily, but also has the broadening effect of
teaching him how to do other things, i.e., showing him
the "how" of doing things, and giving him standards
which are the outcome of mental habits, and by which he
learns to measure.
2. General mental development is provided for by the experience
which the worker gets not only in the general way in which all who
work must give experience, but in the set way provided for by
Scientific Management. This is so presented to the worker that it
becomes actually usable at once. This not only allows him to judge
others, but provides for self-knowledge, which is one of the most
valuable of all of the outcomes of Scientific Management. He becomes
mentally capable of estimating his own powers and predicting what he
himself is capable of doing. The outcome of this mental development is
(a) wider interest.
(b) deeper interest.
(c) increased mental capabilities.
The better method of attack would necessarily provide for wider
interest. The fact that any subject taken up is in its ultimate
final unit form, would certainly lead to deeper interest; and the
exercise of these two faculties leads to increased mental
capabilities.
MORAL DEVELOPMENT.--Moral development under Scientific
Management results from the provisions made for cultivating--
1. personal responsibility.
2. responsibility for others.
3. appreciation of standing.
4. self-control.
5. "squareness."
1. Personal responsibility is developed by
(a) Indi
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