Handling Men: Selecting and Hiring, how to Hold Your Men, Breaking in and Developing Men, Putting More Than Money in Pay EnvelopesA. W. Shaw Company, 1917 - 200 pages |
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Page 197 - ... where a person has discovered an improved principle in a machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, and employs other persons to assist him in carrying out that principle, and they, in the course of experiments arising from that employment, make valuable discoveries ancillary to the plan and preconceived design of the employer, such suggested improvements are in general to be regarded as the property of the party who discovered the original improved principle, and may be embodied in his...
Page 71 - ... did not have men who were just as much interested as yourself in making a good saw. A man will be happier in his work if he knows that he is a real part of the concern, if he knows that he can spend all his working days with you without danger of an overnight discharge.
Page 200 - It is the elimination and utilization of waste, waste effort, waste time and material, the minimizing of destruction and damage, wear and tear, that produce the great results in the industrial world. There is no magic in these accomplishments. The leaders in action or thought are not magicians but steady, persistent workers.
Page 46 - ... do a fine act simply because it is fine? A business must be profitable if it is to continue to exist, but the glory of business is to make it so successful that you can do great things because they are great and because they ought to be done.
Page 84 - I frankly confess that I felt there was something fundamentally wrong in a condition of affairs which made possible the loss of human lives, engendered hatred and bitterness, and brought suffering and privation upon hundreds of human beings. I determined, therefore, that in so far as it lay within my power I would seek some means of avoiding the possibility of similar conflicts arising elsewhere or in the same industry in the future. It was in this way that I came to recommend to my colleagues in...
Page 197 - No one is entitled to a patent for that which he did not invent unless he can show a legal title to the same from the inventor or by operation of law; but where a person has discovered an improved principle in a machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, and employs other persons to assist him in carrying out that principle, and they, in the course of experiments arising from that employment...
Page 86 - Men, is it fair, in this corporation where we are all partners, that three of the partners should get all the earnings, be they large or small — all of them — and the fourth nothing?' "After the illustration, one of the men made a speech for higher wages. I asked him, 'Is it fair for you to want more wages when one of the partners gets nothing?
Page 88 - There shall be no discrimination by the company or by any of its employees on account of membership or nonmembership in any society, fraternity, or union.
Page 67 - Jack, didn't I discharge you yesterday? What are you doing here?" "Ah! Yes, you did," came back Jack, "but if you don't know when you have a good man, I know when I have a good boss." Jack stayed and he did not "stop out" again. I do not know how many grindstones he wore out in the many years of steady work after that time. Certainly he must have been a heavy contributor to the wall of discarded stones that encloses the factory land. I give this incident not as an example of how to treat men, nor...
Page 137 - Every human being responds more quickly to love and sympathy than to the exercise of authority and the display of distrust. If in the days to come, as you have to do with labor, you will put yourself in the other man's place and govern your actions by what you would wish done to you, were you the employee instead of the employer, the problem of the establishment of the personal relation in industry will be largely solved, strife and discord as between labor and capital will give place to cooperation...