Increasing Human Efficiency in Business
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (957 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1419126288 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 148 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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But must that always be the case? According to renowned business psychologist Walter Dill Scott, managers can help workers find their "second wind," the point at which they move past their previous limits and achieve top performance. He hopes to find each worker's latent powers and hidden stores of energy to discover "wider horizons of honorable and profitable activity." . From the Back Cover We've built machines to become more efficient in business, but humans remain human -- and inefficient. He looks at factors such as imitation, competition, loyalty, concentration, wages, pleasure, "the love of the game," relaxation, and habit formation. Applying psychology to business, Scott wrote, "when a man is doing what he believes to be his best, he is still able to do better
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