The Man in Control 49 



try for ui to diride our work to that man'i time 

 and hii tools could be used to tht utmost advan- 

 tage in preparing the thousands of products which 

 .is possible to make under these new conditions. 

 No one man alone could do all the jobs that are 

 necessary in the making of tables or chairs or cloth 

 or any of the other useful things now made in 

 great quantities with the aid of modern machir 



It is obvious that, with all this subdivided effort 

 and these hundreds of jobs to be performed in 

 order to finish a given product, no one man can 

 be sufficiently familiar with all the details of the 

 work, its value and its wastes, so that the organiza- 

 tion can be kept going and improving. Therefore, 

 the supervisors, from the head of the establish- 

 ment down through the different departments, are 

 divided up so that they exercise control over a part 

 of the work only. Of all the supervisors, the fore- 

 man, being in direct contact with his portion of 

 the work and the men who arc doing it and in 

 charge of the machines which they use and the dis- 

 position of the work, is the most important super- 

 visor in the process of the development of the raw 

 material into the finished product. 



Knowledge Put to Work. We hear so much 

 about experience and so little about study that 

 we art in danger of forgetting the dependence of 

 modern industry upon accumulated knowledge. 

 The reason we know how to repeat things so 

 well and to create so much machinery and do so 

 much work is that we have put knowledge to work 

 and kept it on the job. 



