The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-29

sign his right name, so that response.
bility is fixed Thus three men, White,
Black and Green, each working eight
hours a day, can make up the travelling
passenger agent, and three men. Jones,
Smith and Brown, make up the assist.
ant general passenger agent. and the
work goes on without break, no mat.
ter what happens.
Never Out, Sick or Dead.
''By this method the travelling pas.
senger agent can spread himself. or
rather itself. over several hundred miles
all at the same time. be in three sepa'
rate cities at one and the same time.
or in case his or its work for few
days in one plane is double or three
times what one man can do. then there
are two or three men automatically
there 10 do il. BY the same method
the assistant general passenger agent is
always on duty, night and day, is never
out of the Office, is never sick and never
dies.
ANY number of men. from one to
a hundred. or even thousand, may
thus make up working unit There
is no conflict of authority, and moth
ing ever turns IN that no one has any
authority 10 settle then aud there. In
the Office the man on the trick has the
authority and hands if over To the man
who takes his place Ont of the Office
on the road, say in case of an accident,
the office force have ranking numbers
and the head number takes charge of
everything.
No matter what happens, some one
person is boss. When he stops work.
ing and turns in. then the man on the
Job becomes boss and is responsible.
Hence the necessity of each man sign,
ing his individual name. No one name
carries any more authority than an
other of the same rank except during
the time some certain man is on duty.
Applies to All Businesses.
"'This system Is already in use in
somewhat limited WAYS where there is
constant day and night work. The day
boss and the night boss rank equally.
and each is boss when he is on duty
In ease of extra work when both bosses
must he there, the oldest man on the
! lob is generally boss, say the day boss
! in this case, and the night boss obevs
him accordingly. Each boss signs his
own name, so that the superintendent
can know who is responsible for GER
| tain things done
"Ths is only small part of the sys-
| TEN, but II represents the central, the
| fundamental idea. This thing of try
ing 10 run everything from one central
office, under one man. often thousands
Of miles away, and with half n dozen
or more men working together on the
ground, each reporting 10 a separate
boss in another city. is done away with
under the Hine system, Those on the
ground work together as unit with
one boss right on the ground. who con.
trols everything and who alone is re.
sponsible The old idea leads to con.
flict Of authority and evasion Of re.
sponsibilitv; the Hine system automati-
cally fixes authority. FORCES complete
responsibility and gets it done then
and there
''The Hinc system. MS is easily To bc
seen, eau be applied 10 every busi-
ness under the sun. from newspapers
TO department stores, farms Ia hotels
IL increases efficiency, decreases cost
gets quick action and cuts rcd tape. 1t
works, otherwise after thorough trial
the Hartman system would not be
adapting il to the entire systcm.'