Co-operation, Not Individualism: This principle is an extension of principle of 'Harmony, not discord' and lays stress on mutual cooperation between workers and the management. Cooperation, mutual confidence, sense of goodwill should prevail among both, managers as well as workers. The intention is to replace internal competition with cooperation.
Cooperation is an action of working together and wherein employees and management should cooperate with each other that could lead to high morale and team spirit. As soldiering leads to underwork and individualism, factories would endure excessive costs and wastage of resources.
Fatigue Study:
(i) Fatigue study refers to the long working hours with sufficient breaks which results in stress, which is also known as fatigue.
(ii) This has an adverse effect on the health of the employees. Fatigue study determines the amount and frequency of rest intervals required for completing the task.
(iii) Through study of fatigue, one can reduce the level of stress and maintain an optimum operational efficiency.
(iv) Fatigue study seeks to find out the amount and frequency of rest intervals to be given to workers in completing a task.