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Show 6 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN the "route clerk," as to the order in which he does his work and a to the movement of the work from one part of the shop to another and, in case a workman gets into any trouble with any of his variou bosses, the "disciplinarian" interviews him It must be understood, of course, that all workmen engaged o the same kind of work do not require the same amount of individua The me teaching and attention from the functional foremen who are new at a given operation naturally require far more teaching and watching than those who have been a long time at th same kind of jobs Now, when, through all of this teaching and this minute instruction the work is apparently made so smooth and easy for the workman the first impression is that this all tends to make him a mere automAs the workmen frequently say when the - aton, a wooden man first come under this system, "Why, I am not allowed to think o move without some one interfering or doing it for me!" The sam criticism and objection, however, can be raised against all othe modern subdivisio of labor. It does not follow, for example, tha the modern surgeon is any more narrow or wooden a man than th early settler of this country The frontiersman, however, had t be not only a surgeon, but also an architect, housebuilder, lumberman, farmer, soldier, and doctor, and he had to settle his law case with a gun You would hardly say that the life of the modern surgeo is any more narrowing, or that he is more of a wooden man than th frontiersman The many problems to be met and solved by th surgeon are just as intricate and difficult and as developing an broadening in their way as were those of the frontiersman And it should be remembered that the training of the surgeo has been almost identical in type with the teaching and trainin which is given to the workman under scientific management Th surgeon, all through his early years, is under the closest supervisio of more experienced men, who show him in the minutest way ho each element of his work is best done They provide him with th finest implements, each one of which has been the subject of specia study and development, and then insist upon his using each of thes implements in the very best way All of this teaching, however in no way narrows him On the contrary he is quickly given th very best knowledge of his predecessors; and, provided (as h is, right from the start) with standard implements and methods whic represent the best knowledge of the world up to date, he is able t use his own originality and ingenuity to make real additions to th world's knowledge, instead of retnventing things which are old In |