Railway Management at Stations

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISCIPLINE. Individuality of an agent and his personal ascendency?wll- and originality of character?imparting knowledge, and the effects of imitation? earnestness and enthusiasm infused throughout a staff?consistency of agent's conduct, in sustaining discipline?inconsistency destructive?impartiality and partiality in the- treatment of men?sympathy between an agent and his ptjtlT?Border, to minimise human infallibility?kindness and au approachable manner?order?obedience in relation to duty, to restraint, to habit, and to rules?hope of reward?vacillation of character injurious? reprimands, chiding, and censure?competition among men to sustain emulation?fear of punishment?public opinion of tile staff upon the agent's reputation?discipline general. Under this heading is embraced the control and government of the staff and the personal qualities desirable that an agent should possess. Discipline may be taken to mean the use by an agent, of expedients and inducements designed to compel the staff to correct behaviour and the due performance of the work. When successfully inculcated, the outcome will be the attainment of the desired end. Discipline depends mainly upon putting into motion a sufficiency of will force, such as to produce a defined line of conduct on the part of the staff. Discipline is a polychrest word, in that it covers or embraces several meanings that may not be all vividly before the mind of the reader at the moment. The word is applicable to orde?frac/ring? training?restraint and punishment. Now order, teaching, and training we have endeavoured to dispose of under organisation and training, and therefore the following pages more particularly apply to restraint and punishment. When discipline is neglected an agent will soon find himself unable to ...