From the INTRODUCTION. The chapters assembled in this volume appeared originally in The Engineering Magazine as a series of articles which ran from January to July, 1912. They were prepared by Major Hine by invitation of the Editors of the Magazine, as a comprehensive definition of his philosophy of management, ample enough in space and scope to permit a complete unfolding of his doctrine and practice. That philosophy, as expressed in the unit system of organization directed toward promoting efficiency in operation in ...
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From the INTRODUCTION. The chapters assembled in this volume appeared originally in The Engineering Magazine as a series of articles which ran from January to July, 1912. They were prepared by Major Hine by invitation of the Editors of the Magazine, as a comprehensive definition of his philosophy of management, ample enough in space and scope to permit a complete unfolding of his doctrine and practice. That philosophy, as expressed in the unit system of organization directed toward promoting efficiency in operation in one of the great engineering industries, has been applied on a scale of magnitude approached perhaps by but one other example in recent experience. Its success was declared with conviction in specially informed circles; but outside of a rather closely specialized audience, the characteristics of Major Hine's work had not been effectively presented until these articles appeared. The ideas embodied are so fundamental, and so certain to exercise a lasting influence upon the ideals and form of industrial organization, at least in certain fields, that there is patent demand for the assembly of the several parts in a single complete group and their perpetuation in the more permanent form of a bound volume. The policies advocated are most interesting, because they depend so little upon mechanisms of any kind, so little upon systems affecting rank and file or the equipment and materiel, and so much upon psychological influences operating first upon and then through the directing official. They are policies largely of mental suggestion; and mental suggestion must be the final power, the ultimate effective appeal, in any successful philosophy of management, whether the institutions through which that management works be traditional, systematic, or scientific. For mental suggestion creates and transforms the ideals which are the first principle of efficiency, and on mental suggestion depends the attitude of the workers toward any institutions and policies the management may provide.
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