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"After  this  training,  the  man  is  put  on  piecework,  and  then,
lf  he  has  the  natural  ability  to  speed  up,  he'iwilj  make  good.
However,  if  he  lacks  this  ability,  he  will  eithenfaij  to  make  his
Piece-work  rate  and  quit,  or  he  will  speed  up  arid  $uin  the
Wo rk  and  have  to  be  laid  off.
“  If  we  could  find  out  beforehand  whether  a  man  would  have
the  necessary  speed  after  he  has  been  trained  how  to  do  the
w °rk,  it  would  save  us  a  good  many  very  expensive  trials.”

experiment  among  men  assemblers  will  be  described
ln  a  subsequent  chapter.  The  significant  tests  are  being
continued  in  use  for  the  selection  of  women  assemblers,
an d  as  soon  as  a  sufficient  number  have  been  working  at
° ne  kind  of  assembling  for  a  certain  length  of  time,  anther ­
  attempt  to  find  the  correlations  will  be  made.
In  the  meanwhile,  there  are  many  kinds  of  assemb
 bng,  similar  and  yet  unlike  that  described  here,  to  which
tests  could  be  applied.  Almost  every  manufacturing
process  ends  with  assembling  operations,  some  of  which
are  complex,  some  very  simple.  Innumerable  packing
operations  are  really  a  sort  of  assembling,  and  require
Workers  of  more  than  average  dexterity.  The  assembling
°I  locks,  clocks,  and  watches  also  requires  peculiar  nimblejress.
  All  of  these  assembling  tasks  warrant  experimentln
 g  to  find  tests  which  will  consistently  select  the  best
as semblers.