MODERN METHODS

The announcement of the results of fatigue researches by the Graduate School of Business Administration makes a considerable contribution toward improving labor conditions in large industries. The definite results show the unmistakable fact that the best relations between the employer and employee can be obtained only when there is an attempt at sympathetic understanding on the part of the former.

The tests undertaken showed that care for the individual problems of employees not only brought about increased production, but in addition the worker was led to get more pleasure from his work.

There has been much just criticism of the high pressure methods of modern industrialists which resulted in making employees into machines. The tests sponsored by the Graduate School of Business Administration show that unless such methods are carried out so that the laborer can retain his individuality failure must be the ultimate result. Such an experiment produces an intelligent understanding that is the essential ingredient of out continued commercial prosperity.