Accountancy and business management .. . s. The latter planis sometimes advisable, as it does not reveal the identity of the menmaking suggestions. All suggestions are taken up in committeemeeting by the committee directly interested, and a small prize isgiven for those suggestions that are put into use. Even so large adepartment store as Marshall Field & Co. has found it extremelyprofitable to offer $ for each suggestion offered by an employe thatis finally adopted. Another method is to use autographic registers like the one illus-trated in Fig., 11 on which three copies are made. The ori
Accountancy and business management .. . s. The latter planis sometimes advisable, as it does not reveal the identity of the menmaking suggestions. All suggestions are taken up in committeemeeting by the committee directly interested, and a small prize isgiven for those suggestions that are put into use. Even so large adepartment store as Marshall Field & Co. has found it extremelyprofitable to offer $ for each suggestion offered by an employe thatis finally adopted. Another method is to use autographic registers like the one illus-trated in Fig., 11 on which three copies are made. The original is sent tothe oflBce, the duplicate is retained by the workman, while the triplicateremains on a roll in the machine. This is removed at the time of thecommittee meeting, and any suggestions adopted are posted on abulletin board. The workman need not even sign his number, butcan present the duplicate as proof that the suggestion was made byhim. The introduction of any or all of these committee and suggestion 64 ORGANIZATION 55. Fig. 11. Autographic Register Made by United Auto-graphic Register Co. plans requires careful study, but when once put into operation theywill prove both successful and of inestimable value to the business. ORAL ORDERS CAUSE CONFUSION 36. Probably no more prolific source of confusion and mis-understanding of in-structions is to befound than in thehabit of giving oralorders. I understoodyou to say or Ithought you meantare familiar excusesoffered for a failure tofollow what the onegiving them considered clear and explicit instructions. The absolute necessity of clearly defined authorities that everyman connected with an organization may know from whom he isto receive orders, is well recognized. When we get above the one-man business, employes are not left in doubt as to the source oftheir orders. Why then should there be left the slightest chance ofmisunderstanding as to the nature of their orders? When we issue orders that are to be executed by some
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