Moses believed human personality and judgment could be reduced to exact numbers
Evidence
Moses said that the first step had to be a reform of the city’s efficiency-rating system, the system of ratings given by supervisors to their subordinates to help determine whether to promote a civil service employee or give him a pay raise; under the present method, ratings didn’t give the Civil Service Commission enough information for a sound judgment. … Making an evaluation system precise was perhaps the most difficult job in civil service, Moses explained; each job had to be broken down into component parts, so that each part could be graded, and in totaling the grades each part had to be given a mathematical weight corresponding to its importance in the job as a whole. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 308 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Great administrators are made by tools, not born with instinct — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 257; Precise job evaluation requires component grading with weighted totals — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 308; Moses regarded the human factor and public discussion as obstacles to suppress — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 323 (+2 more)
Related
- Precise job evaluation requires component grading with weighted totals (similarity 0.88)
- Moses proposed reducing every government job to weighed mathematical grades (similarity 0.84)
- Moses regarded the human factor and public discussion as obstacles to suppress (similarity 0.81)
- Precise job evaluation requires decomposing roles into weighted component parts (similarity 0.81)
- Moses regarded America’s commitment to equality as an obstacle to good government. (similarity 0.80)
- Moses dismissed discussion and valued implementation over debate from his earliest career (similarity 0.79)
- Moses endorsed suppressing civil servants who dared to unionize. (similarity 0.79)
- Great administrators are made by tools, not born with instinct (similarity 0.78)