A psychologist's point of view : twelve semi-popular addresses on various subjects / by Charles S.Myers.

  • Myers, Charles S. (Charles Samuel), 1873-1946.
Date:
1933
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    *53 workers’ organisations have actually asked for investi¬ gations of this kind, and they have been declined by the employers. I look forward to the day when Trade Unions will feel that those matters which the Institute is investigating are of such importance that they will even go so far as to call their men off from works where conditions are so bad that inefficiency on the part of the men is unavoidable through ineffi¬ ciency of management, whether such inefficiency be due to incompetent personnel or to other bad conditions of work. The question may be asked, “ What has been the attitude of the workers to the Institute’s studies ? ’ ’ They again have been almost invariably favourable. When the Institute’s investigators were working in the coal mines, there were several instances where the men suggested other pieces of work which the Institute could beneficially carry out. The first piece of work carried out by the Institute was on packing ; it resulted in an increase of output of 35 per cent. Of their own accord the workers came and expressed their thanks to the investigators, because they were going home after their day’s work feeling much less tired than before. Other work carried out by the Institute on breakages for two firms resulted in a reduction by 53 and 44 per cent, respectively. This led to similar expressions of approval on the part of the workers, one of them remarking, “ We are in clover now.” It was striking how much more smoothly, and with what freedom from worry and annoyance, the whole flow of work now went, thus being performed with increased efficiency.