Cure Anxiety And Panic Attacks

Lack of interest in work grows out of absentee ownership. The absent industrial landlords, interested only or principally in dividends, employed experts, scientific managers, to produce a substitute for the old-time workman's interest in his work. The scientific managers have been attacked so violently and so frequently that I feel obliged to apologize for referring at this point to the most obvious and fundamental error contained in their original program. The scientific managers did not, in the beginning of the efficiency movement, differentiate between the workman and the machine or tool with which he worked. Men and machines were to be made to do each operation the "easiest" Way; that is, with the least lost motion and expenditure of ef BUSINESS EXECUTIVES 161 Fort. The scientific managers have not yet grasped fully the difference between a man and a machine and the economy of making use of the heads of the workers as well as their arms and legs. A good deal is said about the worker's psychology, as though the worker were some strange, wild beast with a peculiar psychology all his own, quite different from the psychology of employers and managers. It is because the psychology of the worker is the same as the psychology of the employer and the manager that strikes and lockouts occur with such distressing frequency. . ....