The efficient man
Subtitle: For The Use Of All Interested In The Training Of Minors And Development Of Supervisors To Best Manage Men And Work In Commerce, Manufacture, Transportation And Engineering, to decrease cost of production and living, and prepare man to best prolong his young-old years of servient labor and proficiency
Publisher: The Gardner printing company
Published: 1914
Place of publication: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: Part I; title: Intellect, Education, Training and Managerial Conditions; title: Introduction 11; title: I. Necessary Subserviency of Men to the Domination of Supervisors in Charge 21; title: II. Functions of a Rational Education for Supervisors 23; title: III. Awakening the Dormant Intellect and Its Utility in Service 30; title: IV. Using the Auxiliaries of Intelligence to Manage men 42; title: V. Value of the Practical versus the Theoretical Man for Overseers 47; title: VI. Characteristic Ability of Small and Large Men  52; title: VII. Requisite Health and Strength of "Bosses"  55; title: VIII Contrasts Between Amateurs and Experts; Absence of Cuts in Learning Vocations 59; title: IX. Injury of Teaching the Commercial Side of Vocations in the Manual or Trade School 62; title: X. Prosperity Menaced by Impotency of Parents, Needed Laborers and the Over Reaching 69; title: XI. The Predominance of the Amateur and the Botch in Industry 87; title: XII. Specialization Causing Loss of the Vocations' Arts 92; title: XIII. Conditions Causing Loss of Control in Management 98; title: XIV. Subsidiaries Hostility to Supervisors Wielding Authority Over Them 104; title: XV. Proprietors vs. Employees' Realization of Risks and Needs in Training Apprentices 109; title: XVI. Young Commoners' Opportunities; Power of the Press to Help Create Efficient Men 117; title: XVII. Needed Realization of Affliction as Well as Skill and Efficiency in the Young-Old 123; title: XVIII. Chief Developers of the Embryo of Efficiency and Need of True Parents 131; title: Part II; title: The Demerits and Developable Efficiency of Supervisors; title: XIX. Twenty Qualifications Essential in General Supervisors 143; title: XX. Need of Good Self-control, Balance and Sense in the "Boss" 145; title: XXI. Efficiency of Self-reliance and Good Judgment 149; title: XXII. Influence of Dignity and Magnetism 152; title: XXIII. Majestic Value of Loyalty 156; title: XXIV. Power of Veracity with Loyalty to Create Integrity 159; title: XXV. Detractions of Self-importance 164; title: XXVI. Advantage of Versatility in Supervisors 167; title: XXVII. Demerit of Bull or Lamb in the "Boss" 169; title: XXVIII. The Desirable Mean Between the Positive and Negative "Boss" 173; title: XXIX. Exaltations on Successes Producing Failures. 176; title: XXX. The Undoing of the Touchy "Boss" 179; title: XXXI. Tantalization of Whimsical Employees ; Needed Development of Amicable Dispositions 182; title: XXXII. Importance of the Ability to Forget as Well as to Remember 187; title: XXXIII. The Good and Efficient "Boss" 190; title: Part III; title: Establishing Business, Labor-saving Management, Disciplining Men, and "Safety First"; title: XXXIV. Functions and Character Required of the Firm's Chief Officials 195; title: XXXV. Hazards in Starting a Business and the Qualities Desirable for Success 200; title: XXXVI. Inappreciation of the Practical and the Dominancy of Operatives 204; title: XXXVII. Pertinency of Help or Position Advertisements ; Character References and Stock Taking 210; title: XXXVIII. Labor-saving Management and the Utility of Efficiency Experts 217; title: XXXIX. Demands of General and Detail Supervision of Work 222; title: XL. Man's Obligation to Respect and Enforce System in All Activities of Work 227; title: XLI. Dethroning of Production Presidents Responsible for Some Radical Cost Systems 230; title: XLII. Evils of Nefarious Cliques and 111 Disciplining of Operatives 234; title: XLIII. Some Reasons for the Retention and Dismissal of Young-olds 241; title: XLIV. Resultant of an Impractical Age as Seen by the Inauguration of Father-Son Clubs 243; title: XLV. Handling Men and the Efficiency of Working and Marshaling Supervisors 247; title: XLVI. Prevalence of Remiss Management; Its Losses and the Salutary Remedies 253; title: "Safety First" Section; title: XLVII. Keen Foresight in and Marshaling Supervisors to Prevent Accidents 259; title: XLVIII. A Card Notation System to Help in the Reduction of Accidents 269; title: XLIX. Back with the Saloon as a "Safety First" Measure 278; title: L. The Author's Workaday Experiences and Sociological Achievements, Embodying 24; title: Fundamental Features Involving "Safety First" Work 287; title: LI. Index 311-336; title: Personal Equation Causing Difficulties in Creating Efficient Supervisors 13; title: Functions in Labor-saving Management and the Training of Supervisors 15; title: Vital Importance of Specializing in Studies as is done in Business 24; title: Example of the Technical Information Applicable to a Vocation 26; title: Authorities Quoted on the Utility Functions of Education 28; title: Judging of Intelligence and Some Methods for Mental Training 32; title: Developing Comprehensions of the Marvelous in Nature, and the Achievements of Man 34; title: An Imaginable Marvel of Wireless Telegraphy 39; title: The Thinker and His Thoughts 40; title: Subtle Subordinates of Intelligence Employed to Subjugate Man 43; title: Some Artifices Utilized in Handling Men 44; title: Comparisons of Time for Learning the Practice and Technic of some Vocations 48; title: Unreliability and the Restraint of the Drinking Habit 56; title: Means for Learning the Technical Theory of Vocations During Days or Evenings 66; title: Know It All and Belligerency of the Young 71; title: Pleasure for Man and Something for Nothing the Pap to Catch Votes 73; title: Need of Efficient Common Laborers for Sanitary Work and for Booms in Business 75; title: Esthetic Practices and False Pride Reducing Efficiency in Labor  77; title: Menace of the Scarcity of Common Laborers 78; title: Brawn Commanding More Wages than Brains 79; title: Trained Loiterers' Struggles to Escape Work and Justifications of Punishment 80; title: Machinery Abolishing Hand Labor and Creating Easy Work for the Unskilled 81; title: Living Beyond Capabilities and Means Will Require the Stepping Down of Some People 82; title: Necessity of Clerical Workers Having Some Physical Exercise 90; title: Specialists' Lack of Knowledge in the Full Art of Their Vocation 94; title: Pathetic Amateurs' Post-mortem Conferences on Defective and New Work 96; title: Tolerance and Suppression of Intoxicants 100; title: Reluctance of Operatives to Work is a Test of a "Boss's" Stamina 101; title: Dull Periods and Disorder Perplexing and Irritating Supervisors 102; title: Needed Subjugation of Aggrandized Self-importance  106; title: An Illustration of Supervisors' Laxity in Best Serving Their Employers Ill; title: Protection for Youths During Their Most Impressionable Years of Adolescence Ill; title: Filling the Gap of Any Idleness Between Schooling and Working 113; title: Advisability of Permitting Boys to Go to Work Early and Notes on What is Hard Labor 114; title: Legislature Looking Toward Filling the Gap Between the Boy's Schooling and Working Periods 116; title: The Hovel Home as a Breeder of Inefficiency 120; title: Blending of Work with Some Play — Youth's Call for Companionship 121; title: The Newsboy's Efficiency Pyramid 122; title: Inefficiency After Adult Maturity Debarring Sturdy Men from Employment 127; title: Ten Don't Epigrams for Those to Remember Who Wish to Rise and to Stay Up 129; title: Period of Man's Greatest Impelling Instinct to Become a Worker or a Loiterer 133; title: Rejections Necessary of Publication Giving Exalted Prominence to Sporting News 134; title: The Need of the True Home to Help in the Development of Efficiency in Man 138; title: Youths Led to Gamble Through the Example and Influence of Parents 138; title: Twenty Qualifications Desirable in Supervisors 144; title: Chief Qualifications of Three Dominant Personalities in "Bosses" 174; title: Ten Eccentric Qualities Exhibited by Some Employees 183; title: Need of Recognition for Efforts to Develop Amicable Dispositions 185; title: Destroyers of Tranquility to be Forgotten 188; title: Five Qualifications Desirable in the Financial Man of a Business 201; title: Operatives' Insubordination and Control of Business Without Responsibility 207; title: Dominancy of Labor Dethroning the Potent and Creating the Bluffer "Boss" 208; title: Questions Involved in Accepting Investments with the Services of Supervisors 212; title: Necessity of Efficiency Experts Being Skilled in the Vocations They Teach 220; title: Losses by Shifting Responsibility Under the Plea "It Was Up to Him" 224; title: Six Special Qualifications Desirable in Detail Supervisors 225; title: Examples of Farcical Red Taping of Business 232; title: Baneful Effects of Passionate Usage of the Power of Discharge 237; title: Consideration in Having Working or Marshaling Supervisors to Do Clerical Tasks 250; title: An Illustration of Operatives' Indifference to Safeguard Themselves Against Injury 261; title: Disregard of Safety Appliances Calling for Adjustment by Operatives 261; title: Example of Carelessness and a Plan for Anticipating and Preventing Accidents 263; title: Adoption of No Smoking by Employees During Working Hours 265; title: The Greater Importance of Prevention Over Cure 265; title: Enactment of Compensation Laws and Heavy Indemnities for Accidents 266; title: A System That can Give Credit for Prevention as Well as Curing 267; title: Drinking in Working Hours 279; title: The Saloon Lunch  281; title: A Political Party's Plank to Set Back the Saloon 283; title: A "Back with the Saloon" Resolution 285; title: A Review of the Author's Literary and "Safety First" Achievements 292; title: The Author's Leavetaking of Sharpsville, Pa 300; title: The Author's Instigation of a Sane Fourth Celebration in Cleveland, 1909 302; title: Twenty-four Fundamental Features Involving "Safety First" and Sociological Work 307; title: Index 311-336; title: Cartoon and Halftone Illustrations; title: The Commoner's Young-old Culmination Firesides Frontispiece; title: Fig. 2. Virtue Meeting Putrids that Blight 33; title: Fig. 3. The Thinker and His Thoughts 38; title: Fig. 4. Face to Face with Courage High 51; title: Fig. 5. The Sturdy "Basses" 53; title: Fig. 6. The Way of Decision 57; title: Fig. 7. Outrivalry of the Considered Great 60; title: Fig. 8. Escaping the Prods of "The Boss" and Efficiency 63; title: Fig. 9. Quest for the Easy 70; title: Fig. 10. A Breach of Father-Son Co-operation 74; title: Fig. 11. Farm and Parent Left to Wither and Die 86; title: Fig. 12. Danger of Inactions 90; title: Fig. 13. Post-Mortem Gathering of the Unknowing 96; title: Fig. 14. Filling in of Minor's Idle Gap in Studies or Work 115; title: Fig. 15. Homes of the Negligent and Thrifty 120; title: Fig. 16. Peacock and Owl Self-reliance 126; title: Fig. 17. The Impotent Parent 123; title: Fig. 18. The Hazards of Youth 136; title: Fig. 19. Lost Control of Senses 148; title: Fig. 20. Wearing Well Acquaintances 163; title: Fig. 21. Experimenting to Discover the "Boss" 170; title: Fig. 22. Beginner's Up-hill Business 203; title: Fig. 23. Inharmonious Bankrupting Team's Work 206; title: Fig. 24. Romancing of the Inefficient 211; title: Fig. 25. Impracticable Age Separation of Kin 246; title: Fig. 26. Author's Portrait 286; title: Fig. 27. Safety Emblem U. S. Steel Corporation and National Association of Manufacturers 257; title: Fig. 28. Safety Emblem National Council for Industrial Safety 257; title: Fig. 29. A Tragedy of the Fourth 304