Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII FATIGUE MEASUREMENT AND FATIGUE ELIMINANATION: HOW TO ATTACK THE PROBLEM SCIENTIFICALLY History of Fatigue Measurement. Accurate fatigue measurement is in its infancy as applied to the industries. Such measurement can take place only where there is complete cooperation between the man measured and the man making the measurements. With the co fbperation, that is the natural result of measured functional management, comes the possibility of making accurate measurements of fatigue under either laboratory or shop conditions. It is as easy to pretend to be tired as to pretend to be working. There is little or no profit in measuring pretended states. Under the scientific form of management there is no incentive to pretend anything. The incentive is, rather, to show exactly what one is doing and how one feels, in order that accurate records may be made, and that the offered rewards may be received. We have, then, at this stage, where every member of the organization realizes that co-operation is necessary for the good of all, the opportunity to measure fatigue with considerable accuracy. We have also the means. The psychologists and physiologists who have measured fatigue rely almost solely upon output as the unit of measurement. Decrease in output in a comparable unit of time, and all other working conditions remaining the same, is taken as indicative of being the result of fatigue. The observed man who is measured may add introspections, he may tell how he feels while working and at the close of work; but this testimony of his, while interesting and worthy to be recorded with the other data, cannot be submitted to the accurate measurement of the observer. In applying fatigue measurement to the industries in the same way that we...
