Modern Business Volume 19 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1919 Excerpt: ... given more often than blame or reproof. Yet every subordinate who is worth having respects reproof and instruction. They are means by which he grows. 19. Obligations of subordinates.--Of course it is not to be supposed that the success of an enterprise depends solely upon the qualities of the office manager. The obligation is not all in one direction. The employe, on his part, is under obligation to act with loyalty and promptness; to do as well as he can the things entrusted to him. Initiative, imagination and willingness to put one's shoulder to the wheel are qualities that cannot escape the attention of superiors. Efficiency is no accidental attainment. It is gotten by constant attention to tasks, by daily doing the job a little better than it was done yesterday. It means working for one's employer with the same loyalty that one exhibits toward one's own business. Each man should make his immediate superior feel that, once he has given him an order, he can dismiss the matter from his mind with the certainty that the task will be done within the time assigned. There is no humiliation in the subordination of one's will to that of a superior. It is a mark of fitness to live in a cooperative society, just as it is a mark of fitness, later, to command. Since executives must find relief from the burden of details, they seek and reward subordinates capable of developing initiative and willing to. assume responsiblity. In this chapter much has been said about the "executive," "the administrator," "the manager." The principles of management, however, apply with equal force to all who direct the work of others; hence, to every department manager and every senior clerk, who by their aid can fit themselves for promotion to administrative work of a higher order. REVI...