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The foreman or the superintendent is at times, even without 

 realizing it, inclined to favor such employees more than their 

 fellow workers and unless they are of exceptionally strong 

 character they will often believe that they can get along by 

 doing less work and perhaps even work of poorer quality and 

 are tempted to take advantage of this circumstance. At some 

 cooperative creameries it is customary to employ personal 

 friends or relatives of the directors, but it is often found that 

 such employees return less in labor than they are paid 

 for. 



Training and Educating the Employees. The superin- 

 tendent or other person in charge of subordinate employees 

 should take an interest in them and in the way they perform 

 their work. If the employees do various kinds of work during 

 the day, then it is beneficial to have each keep a systematic 

 record of his day's work. To illustrate, a young man who 

 started as a helper in a small creamery made a written outline 

 of his day's work, even to the extent of marking the time he 

 took to perform his various duties. Thus his attention was 

 daily called to the quantity as well as to the quality of his own 

 work, and as a result he made rapid advances. 



i. Encouraging Originality. The management should en- 

 courage originality among its employees. Wherever the leader 

 of an establishment has developed his own originality and that 

 of the employees he often finds this to be a source of great 

 income to the employers. In order to promote originality the 

 employer should reimburse his employees for new ideas and 

 inventions in proportion to the value thereof to the firm. 

 Some large industrial concerns are offering valuable premiums 

 for useful ideas and inventions made by the employees. Such 

 inventions are usually along the particular line of work in 

 which the employee is engaged. The same policy along similar 

 lines is being adopted by manufacturers of dairy products. It 

 is deserving of even wider adoption, for it gives added pleasure 

 and dignity to labor and it stimulates the employee to more 

 effective work because he likes to work and not because he has 

 to. Originality is very important to consider in the organi- 



