Years of Productivity Prolonged. — Under Functionalization the number of years of productivity of all, workers and foremen alike, are increased. The specialty to which the man is assigned is his natural specialty, thus his possible and profitable working years are prolonged, because he is at that work for which he is naturally fitted.
Moreover, the work of teaching is one at which the teacher becomes more clever and more valuable
as time goes on, the functional foreman has that much more chance to become valuable as years go by.
Change in the Worker's Mental Attitude. — The work under functionalization is such as to arouse the worker's attention and to hold his interest. [21] But the most important and valuable change in the worker's feelings is the change in his attitude towards the foremen and the employer. From "natural enemies" as sometimes considered under typical Traditional Management, these all now become friends, with the common aim, coöperation, for the purpose of increasing output and wages, and lowering costs. This change of feeling results in an appreciation of the value of teaching, and also in promoting industrial peace.
[ 1]. Mary Whiton Calkins, A First Book in Psychology, p. 273.
[ 2]. Sully, The Teacher's Handbook of Psychology, p. 1.
[ 3]. Ibid., p. 54.
[ 4]. Hugo Münsterberg, American Problems, p. 35.
[ 5]. Gillette and Dana, Cost Keeping and Management Engineering, p. 1.