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...younger and happier. The mere accumulation of money long ago lost interest for him. The acquiring of a reputation as a useful public servant does interest him a lot. Public service of some sort is all that is left to a man like Mr. Mellon. It may not be true, but it does not make him mad to say he is the 'best Secretary since Alexander Hamilton...
...produced, like toothpicks, by scientific, large-scale methods. The Personnel Research Federation recently organized in New York announces that science and business are to be united in its study of "the human factor" in industry. "To weed misfits from American industry, and to make its millions of workers happier, more efficient, and more productive," is the ingenious wording of its purpose...
...happier creature than the Southern negro of the old type does not exist Carefree, without a thought of the morrow, his is the perfect joy of the eternal child. Yet his inefficiency as a workman defies all comparison. One never hears of a negro committing suicide. "But taint strange, Boss," says Rastus. "When a nigger gits into trouble, and starts thinkin, he just naturally goes to sleep." His childish joy is the product of a mind that does not function...
...goal which he can reasonably hope to attain. The prospect which greater efficiency holds out to the intelligent worker is the possibility of becoming a more nearly perfect cog in the system which he already hates. By what strange stretch of the imagination, can one call this making workers happier? Indeed, for the Personnel Research Federation to say it is investigating "the human factor" in industry is a misnomer. It would be better to call it "the flesh and bone factor." There is nothing human about...
Among the organizations which have united in a nation-wide investigation to weed misfits from American industry, and make its millions of workers happier, more efficient, and more productive, is the graduate school of Business Administration and the bureau of Vocational Guidances at the University, it was announced yesterday...