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will match the one I just made?” The test was administered in
local Arabic so language was not a problem. A person’s mental
abilities were illustrated by the accuracy with which he could
forecast what the test paper would look like when it was unfolded.
When supervisors are provided with information as to how their
employees rank in basic intelligence, they could concentrate
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almost magical to see how quickly supervisors reacted and be-
gan to make use of such data.

3. Having observed Aramco operations for several years, some
of us felt that what Aramco needed was not more employees,
but fewer employees who were more skilled as a result of bet-
ter training. To illustrate the typical work situation, let’s use an
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In the morning, the American carpenter would pick up a
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truck, drive to the shop to secure his orders for the day and load his
crew of several Saudi Arabs. At their work site for the day the Ar-
abs would do the lifting and carrying and cleanup, but would par-
ticipate to only a limited degree in any skilled work to be done. The
interaction between the American and the Saudi Arabs was limited
due to the American’s pidgin Arabic and the Arab’s pidgin English.
I felt it vitally important that we enhance practical training in sev-
eral ways:

1. To break every job down into the steps by which an individual
would progress from an unskilled, illiterate state to the level of a
journeyman in his craft. This would involve detailed analysis by
a foreman who knew his craft thoroughly.

2. We needed motivators that would occur quickly enough to en-
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as he attained increasing level of skill.
3. We should carefully avoid the training being academic. Arabs
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