ABSTRACT
The fundamental difference between Industrial Psychology and Scientific Management is the different attitude of the former towards the problems with which it deals. During the war period psychologists and physiologists were called in to help to obtain the maximum production of materials from the munition factories which could be maintained for months or even years. Their work is being carried on to-day by the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, and with so much tact and real success that their investigators have in many cases received the spontaneous thanks of the workers involved. The applications of psychology to industry are literally innumerable, and it is no exaggeration to say that, scientifically applied, this new knowledge will revolutionise man’s economic life. Nevertheless any attempt to estimate the economic importance of Industrial Psychology must include some reference to the pioneer work done by Frederick Winslow Taylor and his disciples and successors.
