. Personnel and employment problems in industrial management ... thereport of the Federal Industrial Relations Commission (page 166): An investigation of the cloak and suit industry in New York showed themaximum number of employes in sixteen occupations during any week of theyear to be 1,952. Actually, however, the payrolls showed that 4,000 people wereemployed in these occupations. It can readily be seen how intricate are the problems involvedin the art of handling men. Every step toward the solution of theseproblems is a step in the direction of democracy. Efficiency as awhole is accomplishe
. Personnel and employment problems in industrial management ... thereport of the Federal Industrial Relations Commission (page 166): An investigation of the cloak and suit industry in New York showed themaximum number of employes in sixteen occupations during any week of theyear to be 1,952. Actually, however, the payrolls showed that 4,000 people wereemployed in these occupations. It can readily be seen how intricate are the problems involvedin the art of handling men. Every step toward the solution of theseproblems is a step in the direction of democracy. Efficiency as awhole is accomplished by efficiency of the individual and efficiencyof the individual is accomphshed only by methods involving per-sonal contact. Scientific Management 53 In a recent noteworthy article on The Progress of the SocialConscience^ by William Jewett Tucker, President Emeritus of Dart-mouth College, the following statement is made: Public opinionas the governing force in modern democracy is the objective ofsocial conscience. It is the awakening of the social conscience. •wra .Hr-arg --tM r^oto fH^3ra r-ii-tn .-cww r-icocq rHrHfaeo i-in CO rHi-tPj i-(caio >->v> ....bO ooooo>«>>>.>« ?»•»»*>* ^ New ElmployeeaUnavoidable quittersAvoidable quittersTotal quitters Total new employees 1914—291Unavoidable Qulttere 298 Avoidable Qulttcre 134 Total Quitters 433 Figure 5—Record of New Employes and Quitters that is making the man at the head of an organization realize thenecessity of free expression of public opinion. The developmentof this expression through the natural channels of intimate contactwill lead in the most normal and direct way to the democratizationof industry. ^ Appearing in the 1915 September issue of the Atlantic Monthly. 54 The Annals of the American Academy The existence of democracy in an organization is not dependentupon any particular method or any particular form of expression. Professor Thomas N. Carver of Harvard University in hisbook
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