Excerpt from Industrial Organization: Factory Management, Problems of Plant and Equipment, Wage Payment Plans, Production and Inspection First of all, efficiency is not strenuousness. The man who hustles may or may not be efficient; probably he is not. Hustling is not a normal element in efficiency, nor is strenuous work apt to be efficient just because it is strenuous. You work at a lathe with the castings you are finishing piled ten feet away. This means strenuous, but not efficient, labor. To work at that same lathe with the castings piled so near that you can get them without moving from your place is less strenuous, but far more efficient labor. We are familiar with the fact that an overloaded machine leads a strenuous life. None of us will, if we understand mechanics, say that it is an efficient life. This is true of men as well as of machines; true of us as well as of our employees. We must get rid of the idea that strenuousness and efficiency are either similar or the same. Driving is one thing; efficiency is something else. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.