THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY IN INDUSTRY
Feiss, Richard A.
The Spirit of Democracy in Industry "Americanizing The American" By RICHARD A. FEISS TAKE two establishments, build for them the same kind of building, equip them with the same kind of_ equipment,...
...Although the responsibility of this education rests upon the leaders, it is essential that the responsibility to the organization be felt before any real democracy can exist...
...to create or awaken community consciousness...
...Welfare work, very often, unfortunately, consists merely of the installation of the equipment useful in the development of personal relationship...
...His newspaper should be a composite likeness of all the varied interests of the community life, quickening the common thought and directing it into those channels which lead to progress and advancement...
...In fact its very elaborateness in some instances shows a lack of appreciation of its true purpose...
...At the Clotheraft Shops of the Joseph & Feiss Company, this development is a specific function of its Employment and Service department, as well as a definite responsibility of the management itself...
...Democracy in industry is not only essential to homogenous and harmonious organization, but is one of its very objects...
...All along the line an ambitious man who is working, should have the school brought to him, or he should be aided by manufacturers or aided by prizes from the labor unions...
...Altogether the particular form of organization may be undemocratic, the form itself is no criterion of democracy...
...Voice—I want to stay here all night...
...It is too often installed in the spirit of philanthropy and self-advertisement or as a substitute for wages...
...it's got me, but we are coming together...
...Lippincott's Magazine...
...Open The Door to Labor Efficiency THE whole future of labor depends upon a new system of part time education, part work, part school,— part time up to eighteen years of age, part time in the high school, part time in the University...
...In this connection the problem is not primarily one of Americanizing the foreigner but of Americanizing the American...
...One of the essentials to democracy is free expression...
...Every ambitious boy should have the door open before him...
...Cheerfully Granted Old Gentleman (disturbed at three a. m. by knocking at the door) —What do you want...
...I call upon the manufacturers and the laboring people of this state to see to it that not one jot or tittle of the Continuation law is destroyed, and that it Is constantly added to.—Charles McCarthy in an address before the directors of Wisconsin state industrial schools...
...A democracy only exists where there is a tjniveb-sal democracy...
...Old Gentleman—All right, stay there all night, by all means.—Pathfinder...
...P. Lowby...
...The lack of confidence in leadership Is not only a serious problem in business organization, but is one which it has to solve before its institutions and all that it holds dear can be thoroughly Americanized...
...The Spirit of Democracy in Industry "Americanizing The American" By RICHARD A. FEISS TAKE two establishments, build for them the same kind of building, equip them with the same kind of_ equipment, put them in similar locations, and install for them an identical accounting system, purchasing and routing systems for handling materials—one of these plants will be a better plant and more successful than the other, depending on the quality of its personal organization...
...The purpose of organization is to co-relate human effort for a mutual accomplishment...
...It is not enough however, that expression is free, but is essential as well that those in positions of leadership be made sensitive to such expression and that all members of the organization be educated to the responsibility of free expression...
...It is a function of management to develop equipment and methods only as a means to that greater accomplishment which can be obtained alone through harmonious and co-ordinated human effort...
...In actual practice we find him doing this in his columns, by his personal influence, and by his means—so far as they will permit— for I never heard of a close-fisted editor in all my experience...
...She was gone a long time, and her mother began to feel anxious...
...No, mother," replied Mary...
...His mission is to give the community vision...
...Sticking Together Little Mary had been sent to the store to get some sticky fly-paper...
...We call this little world "the community...
...to give expression to the community mind...
...Of two organizations following the same forms of administration, one may be democratic, and one autocratic in fact...
...The problem of human relationship, therefore, is the main problem of management...
...He gives back in overflowing measure for all that he receives.—J...
...Whether or not a management has at its service modern equipment or a separately functionalized department, it must concern itself chiefly with the establishment and development of a personal relationship that will lead to a progressively better understanding between management and men...
...The Country Editor THE country editor has a little world of his own, and he is its servant...
...We have in Wisconsin made a desperate effort to maintain ourselves in our ideals in this respect against the whole country...
...Going to the door, she spied the little girl coming up the street, and called, "Mary, have you got the fly-paper...
...It is for him to actively support every enterprise which promises community progress...
...An organization can not be considered thoroughly democratic where there is one democracy for the workers and a different democracy for the executives...
Vol. 8 • September 1916 • No. 9
