1. List the duties and requirements of the work.
2. Decide whether the place can be best handled as one, or subdivided into several further subdivisions, or functions, or even sub-functions, for two or more function specialists.
For the sake of analysis, all work may be considered as of one of two classes: —
1. the short time job.
2. the long time job.
These two divisions are handled differently, as follows:
The Short Time Job. — On the short time job that probably will never be repeated, there is little opportunity and no economic reason for specially training a man for its performance. The available man best suited to do the work with little or no help should be chosen to do it. The suitability of the man for the work should be determined only by applying simple tests, or, if even these will cause costly delay or more expense than the work warrants, the man who appears suitable and who most desires the opportunity to do the work can be assigned to it.
If the job is connected with a new art, a man whose habits will help him can be chosen.
For example: — in selecting a man to fly, it has been found advantageous to give a trick bicycle rider the preference.
There is no other reason why the man for the short job should not be fitted as well to his work as