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success, viz: maintaining efficiency. Where there is Httle or no 

 professional pride to keep men up to the mark this is, indeed, the 

 most difficult problem. The forester has to face it where he deals 

 with large bodies of men who merely wish to get their wages, as 

 for example in fire fighting. While chances to encourage healthy 

 competition, house or firm loyalty, and professional pride are not 

 neglected, Mr. Taylor places his main reliance on the selection 

 of suitable workmen, adequate instruction in the best methods of 

 work, and a high rate of wages. Probably the most notable con- 

 tribution in this line is the development of the concept of func- 

 tional foremen. These foremen are teachers who specialize on 

 some particular branch of the work and replace the foremen of 

 the old school who were supposed to know everything and for 

 that reason could do nothing thoroughly. 



To repeat, then, the formulation of a scheme of scientific 

 management, presupposes the application of the scientific method 

 to the investigation of these five main sub-divisions of any art or 

 business: i. Sequence of time activities. 2. Equipment. 3. 

 Straight line methods. 4. Progress records. 5. Alaintenance of 

 efficiency. 



This means that for each of these divisions the investigator 

 must find out : 



I. What is being done? 2. What are the most favorable con- 

 ditions? 3. What should be accomplished under the most favor- 

 able condtions? 



In order to show how this works out in actual practice it is 

 proposed to give two illustrations of the application of scientific 

 management to work in forestry. It is to be regretted that it has 

 not been possible to fully complete these investigations but enough 

 has been done to indicate the methods of attack and forecast the 

 results attainable. 



The first illustration is a study of a supervisor's office duties in 

 the management of a National Forest in the West. Obviously the 

 first thing to do is to find out how he spends his time. Averages 

 covering a long period and a wide range of conditions showed the 

 time distribution to be as follows : 



Case preparation, 70% 



Conference, 20% 



Dictation and signing mail, 10% 



