The Psychology of Management by Lillian Moller Gilbreth

CHAPTER VIII

TEACHING .................................................... 208 Definition of Teaching--Teaching Under Traditional Management--Faults Due to Lack of Standards--Teaching Under Transitory Management--Teaching Under Scientific Management--Importance of Teaching--Conforming of Teaching to Psychological Laws--Conservation of Valuable Elements of Traditional and Transitory Management--Scope of Teaching--Source of Teaching--Methods of Teaching--Instruction Cards as Teachers--Systems as Teachers--Drawings, Charts, Plans and Photographs--Functional Foremen as Teachers--Object Lessons as Teachers--Training the Senses--Forming Good Habits--Importance of Teaching Right Motions First--Stimulating Attention--Forming Associations--Educating the Memory--Cultivating the Imagination--Developing the Judgment--Utilizing Suggestion--Utilizing Native Reactions--Developing the Will--Adaptability of Teaching--Provision of Places for Teaching--Measurement of Teaching--Relation of Teaching to Academic Training and Vocational Guidance--Summary: (a) Result of Teaching in the Work; (b) Result of Teaching to the Worker; (c) Results to be Expected in the Future.