The Psychology of Management by Lillian Moller Gilbreth

2. General mental development is provided for by the experience

which the worker gets not only in the general way in which all who work must give experience, but in the set way provided for by Scientific Management. This is so presented to the worker that it becomes actually usable at once. This not only allows him to judge others, but provides for self-knowledge, which is one of the most valuable of all of the outcomes of Scientific Management. He becomes mentally capable of estimating his own powers and predicting what he himself is capable of doing. The outcome of this mental development is (a) wider interest. (b) deeper interest. (c) increased mental capabilities. The better method of attack would necessarily provide for wider interest. The fact that any subject taken up is in its ultimate final unit form, would certainly lead to deeper interest; and the exercise of these two faculties leads to increased mental capabilities. MORAL DEVELOPMENT.--Moral development under Scientific Management results from the provisions made for cultivating--