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Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Walter Dill Scott
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foremen are assured that the manager is
watching their efforts with attention and regard,
approving, supporting, and sparing them
wherever possible, they will anticipate orders,
assume extra burdens, and fling themselves
and their forces into any breach which may
threaten their chief's program.

If a workman, clerk, or salesman knows that
his immediate chief is interested in him personally,
that he understands what service is
being rendered and is anxious to forward his
welfare as well as that of the house, there is
no effort, inconvenience, or discomfort which
he will not undertake to complete a task which
the boss has undertaken. Throughout the
entire organization, the sympathy and coperation
of the men above with the men below
is essential for securing the highest degree of
loyalty. No assumed or manufactured sympathy,
however, will take the place of the genuine
article.


_Personal Relationship with Workers as Basis
for creating Loyalty_

The effectiveness of human sympathy in
creating loyalty is most apparent in one-man
businesses where the head of the house is in

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