The Man Who Dislikes Planning Can Be Relieved. — It must not be forgotten that many people dislike the planning responsibility in connection with their work. For such, relief from planning makes the performance of the planned work more interesting and desirable.
Provision for Planning by All Under Scientific Management. — Much has been said about the worker's "God-given rights to think," and about the
necessity for providing every worker with an opportunity to think.
Scientific Management provides the fullest opportunities for every man to think, to exercise his mental faculties, and to plan
1. in doing the work itself, as will be shown at length in chapters that follow.
2. outside of the regular working hours, but in connection with promotion in his regular work.
Scientific Management provides always, and most emphatically, that the man shall have hours free from his work in such a state that he will not be too fatigued to do anything. Furthermore, if he work as directed, his number of working hours per day will be so reduced that he will have more time each day for his chosen form of mental stimulus and improvement.
Our friend John Brashear is a most excellent example of what one can do in after hours away from his work. He was a laborer in a steel mill. His duties were not such as resemble in any way planning or research work, yet he became one of the world's most prominent astronomical thinkers and an Honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, because he had the desire to be a student. Under Scientific Management such a desire receives added impetus from the method of attack provided for through its teaching.
Functionalizing the Work Itself. — The work of each part of the planning and performing departments may be functionalized, or subdivided, as the result of motion study and time study. The elementary
timed units are combined or synthesized into tasks, made to fit the capabilities of specialized workers. It is then necessary to: —