Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1912 — Carrying It Too Far. [ARTICLE]

Carrying It Too Far.

"Scientific management, like any other good thing, may be carried to excess.” The speaker was R. Marriott Thompson, the San Francisco scientific management expert. He continued, says the New York tribune: “We scientific managers mustn’t go as far as Hussler went. “Hussler was the proprietor of a tremendous factory where scientific management had reduced the motions of every hand from 800 to 17. Hussler attended a very fashionable wedding one day, a wedding where the ceremony was performed by a bishop, assisted by a '“dean and a canon, and in the most impressive part of the writ Hussler, overcome by his scientific management ideas, rushed up to the altar and pushed the bishop and canon rudely back, ■*’ ‘Here, boys,’ he said, ‘one’s quite enough for a little Job like this.’ ”