Letters from an Old Railway Official
by Charles De Lano Hine
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hine, Charles De Lano, 1867-1927
- Title
- Letters from an Old Railway Official. Second Series: [To] His Son, a General Manager
- Credits
- E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
- Subject
- Railroads -- Management
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45444
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45444
- Release Date
- April 21, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LETTERS FROM AN OLD RAILWAY OFFICIAL SECOND SERIES TO HIS SON, A GENERAL MANAGER
- 2.FOREWORD.
- 3.FILE NUMBERS.
- 4.LETTER I. THE NEW GENERAL MANAGER.
- 5.LETTER II. BUILDING AN ORGANIZATION.
- 6.LETTER III. THE GENERAL MANAGER ON THE WITNESS STAND.
- 7.LETTER IV. FURTHER GRUELLING OF THE GENERAL MANAGER.
- 8.LETTER V. LIMITATIONS OF THE CHIEF CLERK SYSTEM.
- 9.LETTER VI. PREVENTING INSTEAD OF PAYING CLAIMS.
- 10.LETTER VII. THE CHIEF OF STAFF IDEA.
- 11.LETTER VIII. THE UNIT SYSTEM.
- 12.LETTER IX. STANDARDIZING OFFICE FILES.
- 13.LETTER X. THE LINE AND THE STAFF.
- 14.LETTER XI. THE PROBLEM OF THE GET-RICH-QUICK CONDUCTOR.
- 15.LETTER XII. THE LABOR NEMESIS AND THE MANAGER.
- 16.LETTER XIII. A DEPARTMENT OF INSPECTION OR EFFICIENCY.
- 17.LETTER XIV. PRESERVING ORGANIZATION INTEGRITY.
- 18.LETTER XV. THE SIZE OF AN OPERATING DIVISION.
- 19.LETTER XVI. SUPPLIES AND PURCHASES.
- 20.LETTER XVII. CORRESPONDENCE AND EXPLANATIONS.
- 21.LETTER XVIII. ORGANIZATION OF THE IDEAL RAILROAD.
- 22.LETTER XIX. THE ENGINEERING OF MEN.
- 23.LETTER XX. THE FALLACY OF THE TRAIN-MILE UNIT.
- 24.LETTER XXI. THE MAN-DAY AS A UNIT.
- 25.APPENDIX THE UNIT SYSTEM OF ORGANIZATION.
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