Today's armies employ scientific management. Of the key points listed; a standard method for performing each job, select workers with appropriate abilities for each job, training for standard task, planning work and eliminating interruptions and wage incentive for increased output. All but wage incentives for increased output are used by modern military organizations. Wage incentives rather appear in the form of skill bonuses for enlistments.

[edit] Division of labour

Unless people manage themselves, somebody has to take care of administration, and thus there is a division of work between workers and administrators. One of the tasks of administration is to select the right person for the right job:

Now one of the very first requirements for a man who is fit to handle pig iron as a regular occupation is that he shall be so stupid and so phlegmatic that he more nearly resembles in his mental make-up the ox than any other type. The man who is mentally alert and intelligent is for this very reason entirely unsuited to what would, for him, be the grinding monotony of work of this character. Therefore the workman who is best suited to handling pig iron is unable to understand the real science of doing this class of work. (Taylor 1911, 59)

This view – match the worker to the job – has resurfaced time and time again in management theories.

[edit] Extension to "Sales Engineering"

Taylor believed scientific management could be extended to "the work of our salesmen." Shortly after his death, his acolyte Harlow S. Person began to lecture corporate audiences on the possibility of using Taylorism for "sales engineering." (Dawson 2005) This was a watershed insight in the history of corporate marketing.

[edit] Criticism

Applications of scientific management sometimes fail to account for two inherent difficulties:

* It ignores individual differences: the most efficient way of working for one person may be inefficient for another;
* It ignores the fact that the economic interests of workers and management are rarely identical, so that both the measurement processes and the retraining required by Taylor's methods would frequently be resented and sometimes sabotaged by the workforce.


Both difficulties were recognised by Taylor, but are generally not fully addressed by managers who only see the potential improvements to efficiency. Taylor believed that scientific management cannot work unless the worker benefits. In his view management should arrange the work in such a way that one is able to produce more and get paid more, by teaching and implementing more efficient procedures for producing a product.

There is one inherent fault in the reasoning behind this notion, based primarily upon the way management, in the form of ownership of the means of production in the early age of manufacturing, looked at the labor force.
The "can implies ought" philosophy led management to assume that the individual worker would acquiesce to whatever role he was assigned.
In reality, whether or not a worker is mentally or physically capable of performing a task is not the only motivation for the worker to wish to pursue that activity as a career.
Case in point, myself. Upon enlisting I scored a GCT of 165 thereby, using the logic of the 1960s Marine Corps, not only qualifying me for a certain level of training but also disqualifying me from positions which were to be filled by those who scored less on an exam upon which anyone who read Newsweek and survived high school could score quite highly. My subsequent assignment to electronics repair as a primary MOS mirrored the "can implies ought" train of logic. Since my father was an engineer, Civil and Mechanical, I had been exposed to those fields since I was old enough to carry a survey rod and draw straight lines. When I joined I requested engineering not electronics. The Corps, in those days, recruited bodies, not interested workers.
Upon graduation from the schools and assignment to a Comm unit as a tech I discovered that despite our education, we were allowed one month of shop time on a rotating basis to maintain our troubleshooting and repair skills. In a unit with 40 +or- techs, that meant every few years.
TAD assignments and field problems alleviated the boredom of everyday duty but we largely lost the ability to perform repairs in the field since if anything ever broke, it went to the shop.
After transferring I discovered that the MOS in my new unit was being phased out. The equipment was to be replaced and training was available only upon reenlistment.
Now here's a "no brainer". I enjoyed the Corps but, the only option were I to remain in was retraining in a field which wasn't what I wanted in the first place.

United States

Known as the Hokey Pokey, it became popular in the USA in the 1950s. Larry LaPrise, Charles Macak and Tafit Baker were granted the copyright for the song in 1950. According to popular legend they created this novelty dance in 1949 as entertainment for the ski crowd at Idaho's Sun Valley resort. However, as the dance was wildly popular with American servicemen and Britons during World War II, this date cannot be correct.

There is another contrary belief that states that Robert P. Degan and Joseph P. Brier, both natives of Scranton, Pennsylvania, wrote the original song as confirmed by the U.S. Copyright Office in 1996, thus giving two groups of musicians the rights. Ray Anthony's big band recording of the song turned it into a nationwide sensation by the mid-1950s (The "Hokey Pokey" appeared on the B side of Anthony's "Bunny Hop" single)(According to my Capitol Collector's Series Ray Anthony cd, "The Hokey Pokey" appears on Capitol 2427 while the "Bunny Hop" was on Capitol 2251. The songs do appear in sequence on the cd, so perhaps this is the source of confusion.) Its rights were purchased in the mid-1960s by country-western music star Roy Acuff's publishing company, Acuff-Rose.

[edit] Origins and Meaning

There are many theories and conjectures about the meaning of the words "Hokey Pokey", and of their origin. Some scholars[citation needed] attribute the origin to the Shaker song Hinkum-Booby which had similar lyrics and was published in Edward Deming Andrews' A gift to be simple in 1940: (p.42)

" A song rendered ("with appropriate gestures") by two Canterbury sisters while on a visit to Bridgewater, N.H. in 1857 starts thus:
I put my right hand in,
I put my right hand out,
I give my right hand a shake, shake shake
And I turn myself about.
As the song continues, the "left hand" is put in, then the "right foot," then the "left foot," then "my whole head."
...Newell gave it the title, "Right Elbow In," and said that is was danced " deliberately and decorously...with slow rhythmical motion."

Before the invention of ice cream cones, ice cream was often sold wrapped in waxed paper and known as a hokey-pokey (possibly a corruption of the Italian "ecco un poco" - "here is a little")[1]. An Italian ice cream street vendor was called a hokey-pokey man.

Other scholars[citation needed] have found similar dances and lyrics dating back to the 17th century. A very similar dance is cited in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1826.

According to Beth Ann Hughes "hokey cokey" comes from "hocus pocus", the traditional magician's incantation which in its turn derives from a distortion of hoc enim est corpus meum - "this is my body" - the words of consecration accompanying the elevation of the host at Eucharist, the point, at which according to traditional Catholic practice, transubstantiation takes place - mocked by Puritans and others as a form of "magic words". The Anglican Canon Matthew Damon, Provost of Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire, says that the dance as well comes from the Catholic Latin mass[2]. The priest would perform his movements with his back to the congregation, who could not hear well the Latin words nor see clearly his movements.

Pogue
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For the New York Times columnist, see David Pogue. For the Irish-English celtic punk band, see The Pogues.

Pogue is an offensive military slang term used by front line troops to describe non-infantry, non-combat soldiers, staff, and other rear-echelon or support units.[1] A related term is the acronym REMF, or "rear-echelon mother ****er".

The term may be derived from a Tagalog word meaning "prostitute". Originally, the term was a sexual insult, as "pogue" was slang for a young male who submitted to sexual advances.[citation needed] This lead to the related term "poguey bait", meaning candy or sweets. It has been used in the United States Marine Corps since as early as World War II, entering Army usage around the time of the Vietnam War.[2]

Due to having lost contact with its linguistic source, the modern military vernacular has turned "pogue" into a retronym/backronym. "Pogue" is now described as the pronunciation of the acronym POG, or Person Other than Grunt.[2]

Pogue is also a derogatory term for an Irish person. In the Irish language, pogue (spelt póg) means "kiss". Perhaps the most well-known phrase in Irish is "póg mo thóin", which means "kiss my ***." The term pogue is not usually considered very offensive.

I cant believe the Hokey Pokey was really what it was all about....my childhood memories are crushed.

God invented pogues so grunts would have something to bit** about.

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God invented pogues so grunts would have something to bit** about.

Lot ya know, Grunts bi#ch about everything.

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God invented pogues....

....because not every Marine has ballz.....literally or figuratively.....

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....because not every Marine has ballz.....literally or figuratively.....

Ours(females) are just tucked in and protected better...

That would make ya WM's asexual, right? Like a worm, not the new 70's term.

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Originally posted by SgtCyns_New_Beginning:

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....because not every Marine has ballz.....literally or figuratively.....

Ours(females) are just tucked in and protected better...

Reasons for a Pogue:

Because pass in review during graduation with one Marine and a boom box leading the formation wouldn't be nearly be as good as the real thing.

Remember...we can still procreate without you men...all we need is a sample and a turkey baster. Samples are easy to get. Some of you guys have already sold them.

When infants are born, doctors give them a swat on the butt to knock the weeners off the smart ones.....

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Remember...we can still procreate without you men

I think you need to go back to Biology class or sex education class.

.....and one man can repopulate the world.

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.....and one man can repopulate the world.

Nice thought, but he would be the father to all the offspring, somewhere the inbreeding would present it's self in the over all linage of the human population. Reason why Man wars, shared wives with other tribes, reason Animals roam to put new blood into packs and herds.
Reason Bible has Cain going out to breed with those outside of Adam and Eve.