Increasing Efficiency In Business - Walter Dill Scott (ebook reader browser .txt) 📗

class="calibre1">Courses, co<o:>perative, 270 f; in

college, 282; automatic, 320.

Crane, R. P., 20.

Curve practice, 224 ff.

 

Danger signal, 211.

Darwin, Charles, 22 ff.

Devices, mechanical, 170.

Dickens, C., 176.

Discipline, 11, 179.

Discomfort,

165, 177.

Disparity, 168.

Dissipations, 220.

Distinction, social, 141.

Distribution,

1, 3, 4-

 

Doherty, H. L., 217.

“Dragged out,” 08.

Drill, 3.

 

“Easy improvements,” 246.

Edison, 14, 37.

Education, industrial, 201; work

on, 21Q; school, 264; theoretical,

299.

Efficiency, see Chap. 1, 7, A;

personal, io5, 18o, 186; curve

Of, 223, 251; high, 240; slumps

in, 253.

Effort, voluntary, 111[, 124.

Electric, fans, YL66; lights, 2.

“ Employment,” ioi.

Energies, 16; mental, 20; expenditure

Of, 21.

Engines, gas, 2; steam turbine, 2.

English, ironmasters, 48, 319,

320.

Enthusiasm, 186, 1187, 190.

Environment, physical, 2, 179 f.,

18o; factors in, 253.

Establishments, 49, 158; successful,

175.

European, 208.

Exhaustion, A8, 172, 173, 284.

Experience, see Chaps. XI-XII;

most valuable, 296.

Expression, verbal, 3oi.

 

“February sale,” 53.

Field, Marshall, 87, 94, 193.

Fluctuations, in learning, 232;

subject to, 249.

Food, 172.

Football, 9.

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Forfeiture of bond, 75.

French, reading, 284.

Fulton,

37.

“Garden cities,” 122.

General Electric CO., 271.

Generations, rising, 220.

Geniuses, potential, T.9i; business,

igi.

German, 319, 320.

“ Getting together,” 198.

Gilbreth, F. B., 329 f.

Girls, sewing, 05.

Gladstone, 113, 2 2 1.

Golf, 54; bogy, 194, 248.

“Go stale,” 235, 251.

Government, paternalistic, 8o.

Grant, 9r.

Grasp, intellectual, 22.

Great Lakes, 48.

Greece,

ancient, 219.

Grip, maximum, 225 f.

Guilds, industrial, 1197-

 

Habit formation, see Chap. XIII;

special conditions, 296 ff., 3o8;

social, 323; personal, 3 2 1

reduce exhaustion, 318.

Handicaps,

in competition, 61;

principle of, 61 f.

Handy men,” o6, 253.

Harriman,

E. H., 17.

Hathaway,

H. R., 327.

Health and vigor, 278.

Herculean, 14, 205.

Hill,

J. J., 20,

Hours, reasonable, 82; of freedom,

219.

 

House organs,” see papers,

35; photographs in, 63, 67, 69,

House patriotism,” 8o; history

and policies, go; picnics,

101.

Human sympathy, as a factor,

85 ff.

 

Idaho orchard, 287.

Ideas, management, 44.

Illumination, i8o.

Imitation, 26 ff., 53; voluntary,

30.

Improvements,

periods Of, 233.

Incubation, periods Of, 233, 247,

249, 253.

Industrial

towns, 122.

Industry, attitude of, 136.

Injuries, 16q.

Instincts, to collect, 139, 188;

hunting, 188; specific, igo;

of man, igo; of competition,

64.

Institute, Smithsonian, r8g.

Insurance, 16o.

Interests, outside, 222; novelty,

239, 249; sustained, 240;

appeals to, 240; spontaneous,

251.

In the running,” 71.

Instruction,

270 f.

Invention, 3, 48, 217; flagging,

239.

 

James, Professor William, 207,

218) 30.

Jefferson,

gi.

Jones, W. R.) A 50 f.

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Judgments, practical, 285 ff.;

reflective, 287 ff. ; expert,

293 ff.

 

Knowledge, empirical, 244; acquired,

243.

 

Labor, hand, 3, 101; intellectual,

168, 70; manual, r68; dignity

of, 19q.

Law, 7.

Lawyers, 175.

Learning,

rate Of, 231.

Lincoln,

9r.

Love of the game, 186 ff.;

classifying, 19o; summarized,

192; social prestige, 194, 1195;

tostimulate, 97; developing,

202.

Loyalty, 75 ff .

Lyons,

Joseph, 208, 209.

 

McCormick, C. H., 24.

Machinist, skilled, 26o.

Magician, i.

Making Experience an Asset,

276 ff.

Making good,” 71, 25T.

Making Psychology Practical,”

301.

Manager, 6, 154; successful, 143;

office, 244.

Marketing, 3.

Medium of competition, 64.

Memory, desultory, 325.

Methods, business, i; specific, 25;

of training, iig; improved, 181,

304; acquisition Of, 243, 266 ff.

 

Millennium, 203.

Miser, i4o.

Models, energetic, 2, 33.

Mood,

mental, 218.

Movements, preleamed, 246;

necessary, 303 ff.

Muck

raking, 195-

 

National Cash Register CO., 272.

Nature, laws Of, 211.

Need,” 73.

New blood,” 156, 276.

New York Herald, 210.

Nourishment, 18.

Nervous system, 12.

Novice, 244, 277.

 

Ohio territory, o8.

One thing,” 315.

Organization spirit,” 8o, 84.

Ornamentation, unobtrusive, i8o.

Output, 158, 165, 167, 08.

“ Overselling,” 98.

Overtension, 214.

 

Pace, 2.

Pacemaker, 52.

“ Pain economy,” 179.

Palmer,

Potter, 87.

Papers, weekly or monthly, 35.

Peers, rivalry between, 56.

Perseverance, 16q.

Personal relations in loyalty, 83.

Personal

relationship with workers,

87 ff .

Personality,

84, 87, 93~ 176.

Philanthropy, 221 f.

Physics, 7, 331.

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Piano playing, 284.

“Pick Up,” 259.

Piecework, 142,143, 145) 162,178,

252.

Plans, profit-sharing, go.

Plateau, 233 ff., 239, 243 ff.

Pleasure,

165 ff .

Policy,

house’s, 152; Multiple

tryout, 99.

Population, British, 207.

“ Pop Up,” 127.

Poverty,

179.

Practice

plus Theory, 254 ff .

Press,

printing, 2; punch, 3.

Preventive, 16q.

Prizes in competition, 62, 67,

165.

Production, instruments of, i.

Profits, surrender of, 84.

Promotions, 73, 101, 155, 156,

157.

Prostrations, nervous, 21.

Psychology, 6, 7; law Of, 25;

modem, 20; work on, 132;

conception Of, T34; student of,

x38; research, iog; course,

295, 300, 3o8 ff.; interest in,

324, 331.

Public opinion, 75.

Puzzle,

Chinese block, 266 ff.;

mechanical, 290; results Of, 291.

 

Quarters, working, 82.

Quota, 72.

 

Rate of Improvement in Efficiency,

223 ff.

Recognition, social, 148.

 

Recreation, 174; hours Of, 221.

Recruits, new, 46, 96.

Regiments, 57.

Relaxation,

204 ff.; necessity for,

210; power Of. 214; gospel Of.

215;

complete, 216.

Research, 14.

Resistance, line of, i io.

Reward, monetary, 139.

”

Right way, 11 252.

Rockefeller, 221.

R6oms, work, 181; lunch, 181.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 13, 189.

“Rush” months, 65; seasons,

72.

 

Sales quota,” 65 ff .

Sanders,

Lewis, 327.

San

Francisco fire, 98.

School, night, 181, 201 ; life, 282

engineering, 270, 299; sales.

men

training, 28 f.

Scientific manage-it,” 252

Scientific study, 5.

Second wind, 12.

Self-preservation, means of, 139,

139, 144; instincts of, 1141 .

Self-protection, methods of, iij.

Selling, haphazard, 5o.

Settlement workers, 220.

Shadwell, Arthur, 206.

Ships, steam, 2.

“ Showing how,” 46.

“ Sidelines,” 26, 131Y 154.

Simmons,

E. C., 20.

Sixth sense, 6.

Skill, special, 43; acquisition of,

246; act of, 256; in perform-

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ing, 256 ff.; perfection Of, 262,

264 f.

Sleep, 14.

“Slowing down” process, 32.

Slump, summer, 165 f.; general,

226 ; profound, 247.

Social, Y94; prestige, 202; demands,

279.

Social approval, desire for, 72.

Society, organized, 113; whims

Of, 194.

Speed, extra, 83; daily record for,

224; average, 224, 282; economical,

304.

Speeding up, 34, 313.

Spencer,

Herbert, 219.

“ Sporting editor,” 69, 73.

“ Square deal,” 99.

Stability, native, 2 2 f.

Stagnation, periods of, 233.

Standard, of artist, 197; Of

capitalist, 197; method, 252;

of efficiency, 253.

“ Star” club, 67.

“Steady job,” 154.

“ Stealing his trade,” 26o ff.

Steel Corporation, 5o ff.

Stephenson, 37.

Stepping stones, 196.

Stimulus, YL96; personal efficiencyideals,

279.

Storage battery, 174.

Strength,

muscular, 7, 183, 184;

physical, 226.

Strike, 161.

Students, 16, 133; colleges, 278.

Subordinate, 187.

Success, first, 239-

 

Suggestible, 177.

Suggestion, 177, 178, 183, 185.

Sunday,219.

“ Swell,” 196.

Swift, E. J., “Mind in the

Making,” 231.

System, apprentice, 26; suggestion,

44; premium, 178.

 

Talks to Teachers,” 208, 219.

Taylor, F. W., 5 ff., 24.

Teachers, college, 270.

Team work, go, 145.

Telegraph, 7; operator, 226 f.

Telephone, 2, 7.

Temperature,

165.

Tennis, 284 f.

Therapeutics, mental, 214.

Thompson, Edgar, works, Si.

Torrid zone, 17 f.

Traditions and ideals, or.

Trifles, I.

Trips, educational, 44 ff.

Tugboat, 213, 2X4,

 

Union, assemblers’, 152.

Union Pacific, 17.

 

Vacation camps, iox.

Vacations, 14.

Ventilation, 179.

 

Wages, fair, 82, 153,~ cOrAmiFsions,

143; piece rates for, i5o;

maximum, 152; sums paid in,

153; value, 241; little or no,

262.

Wanamaker, John, 271.

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Warming up, I 1, 12, 232.

“Wars,” 68.

Washington, 85) 91.

Waste,

elimination of, 6; body,

173; poisonous, 173; in methods,

261.

Watson, E. P., 13 f.

Weariness, 12; aftermath of, 177-

 

“Welfare,” features, 122.

Westinghouse, 37.

Will, effort of, 111, 124; strength

Of, ITLI.

Wizard, I.

 

Yawning, contagion of, 31.

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