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Training with cards

Image of Gardiner's card file from his thesis

Glenn Lion Gardiner's 1920 thesis called "The relation of the employment manger to job analysis and the personel" outlines an index card system of his own devising for training employees. In it, a card file is be created in which related jobs are grouped in "blocks." Within each block is a divider for each job. Behind each divider is a card for each job duty.

When supervisors need to train new hires, they simply reach for the right pack of cards and tick them off as each facet of the job is covered.

It may be a relic of the scientific school of management thought, but I think it's cool.

∞ | August 12, 2004 in artifacts from the retro stacks

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