OBJECTIVES OF EMPLOYEE REPRESENTATION 
To many readers this may seem but a page torn from the business 
code of today; and so it is, but it is only one page; the others reveal 
faith in the potency of service as a source of satisfaction, both in 
pecuniary profit and in professional pride. This newer note is a 
product of many forces, not the least of which, perhaps, is the growth 
of enterprises so extensive that men of large calibre, fully the equals 
of the merchant princes of an earlier day but often divorced from the 
direct appeal of profits, have had to be hired to manage them. Ad- 
ministration and management, as distinct functions apart from those 
of either entrepreneur or capitalist, now occupy thousands of men 
whose work impels them to think of business as something more than 
purely a profit producing procedure. 
“The Taylor philosophy of management first gave logical and 
coherent expression to the ideal that business should be an aggregate 
of processing enterprises instead of an aggregate of speculative enter- 
prises.”t This philosophy has spread far beyond the confines of the 
relatively few establishments in which the Taylor “system” has 
been applied; for the production of goods and services continuously, 
in order that income may be continuous, is as much a desideratum 
of general managers and their various functional subordinates as 
of the rank and file. Few of them have reserves permitting them to 
remain idle; and their vocational specialization, together with the 
large scale of industrial undertakings which deprives them of indi- 
vidual control over instruments of production, makes them dependent 
upon stable conditions for a livelihood. Whether he be primarily 
concerned with manufacturing goods, with rendering direct services, 
with providing and maintaining an adequate financial basis for 
operations, or with marketing either goods or services, therefore, 
it is to the interest of the salaried executive of every rank, from straw 
boss to president, to promote those policies of management which 
tend to remove all uncertainties from business and thus stabilize 
operations. 
Reinforcing this impelling, personal, economic motive, there is the 
pride in good workmanship which today actuates the professionally 
minded manager in much the same way that it did the craftsman of 
the middle ages. The craft spirit, which so largely has left the ranks 
! Person, H. S., 0p. cit., p. 36. 
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