380 SECTIONAL TRANSACTIONS.— F. 



This spirit will show itself in better co-operation, increased receptiveness 

 to new methods and in added interest in work. 



Good leadership is important and will bring with it a square deal for all 

 concerned, adequate wages and good working conditions. The responsible 

 staff must feel free to express ideas and have opportunity for advancement. 

 The management must at all costs avoid a patronising attitude towards the 

 workers. 



Another difficult problem for the small manufacturer is that of keeping 

 his methods efficient. 



In place of the staff of experts employed by the large producers, the 

 small manufacturer can use the services of consultants. The breadth of 

 a consultant's experience and his freshness of outlook will make up for 

 his lack of knowledge of the particular business, provided that the staff 

 co-operate with him. 



If consultants are selected wisely, and given adequate scope, a small 

 organisation may soon reach the forefront of well-managed concerns, 

 enjoying the advantages of vocational selection tests, motion and position 

 study, rest pauses, centralised production planning and advanced technical 

 methods. 



Mr. E. S. Byng. — Administration as a profession (3.30). 

 Administration is defined as the co-ordination and control of all the 

 specialised activities concerned in industrial, commercial and other organisa- 

 tions. Owing to the growth in the size and complexity of industrial systems 

 the responsibilities of administration call for the highest skill and the most 

 careful training, to ensure that the true goal of industrial progress — the full 

 co-operation of capital and labour — may be attained. The author claims 

 that it is through the development and perfecting of a recognised profession 

 of administration that the industrial and economic problems confronting 

 the nation can best be solved. The necessity for early training in the funda- 

 mental principles of administration is emphasised, and courses of study 

 leading from the elements to the higher techniques of administration are 

 outlined. 



Tuesday, September 15. 



Prof. P. Sargant Florence and Mr. A. J. Wensley. — The localisation 

 of industry (10.0). 



The concentration of particular industries in particular localities is at 

 the root of the major problem of unemployment to-day, the problem of the 

 depressed areas. This localisation is a matter of degree, and an accurate 

 measure of the degree to which any industry is localised or to which any 

 locality is devoted to any particular industry must be the first step in 

 studying ways and means of restoring the depressed areas to economic 

 prosperity. These measures, which are described in detail, make it possible 

 to grade industries into those that are ' spread ' over the population and 

 not localisable, and those that are localised to various degrees. Moreover, 

 with some knowledge of technical conditions and the reasons for the actual 

 location of an industry, it is possible to divide the localised industries into 

 those capable of transference into depressed areas and those where trans- 

 ference is not feasible. 



Mr. S. R. Dennison. — The location of industry and the depressed areas ( 1 1 .0). 



The problems of the depressed areas are partly the result of changes in 

 industrial location due to various general changes in industrial structure. 



