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Show TH PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN CHAPTE FUNDAMENTAL O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN HE principal object of management should be to secure th maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maxi mum prosperity for each employé The words "maximum prosperity'' are used, in their broad sense to mean not only large dividends for the company or owner, bu the development of every branch of the business to its highes state of excellence, so that the prosperity may be permanent In the same way, maximum prosperity for each employé mean not only higher wages than are usually received by men of his class but, of more importance still, it means the development of each ma to his state of maximum efficiency, so that he may be able to do generally speaking, the highest grade of work for which his natura abilities fit him, and it further means giving him, when possible this class of work to do It would seem to be so self-evident that maximum prosperity fo the employer, coupled with maximum prosperity for the employé ought to be the two leading objects of management, that even t And yet there is no questio state this fact should be unnecessary that, throughout the industrial world, a large part of the organization of employers, as well as employés, is for war rather than fo peace, and that perhaps the majority on either side do not believ that it is possible so to arrange their mutual relations that thei interests become identical The majority of these men believe that the fundamental interest Scientifi of employés and employers are necessarily antagonistic management, on the contrary, has for its very foundation the fir conviction that the true interests of the two are one and the same that prosperity for the employer cannot exist through a long ter of years unless it is accompanied by prosperity for the employé and vice versa; and that it is possible to give the workman what h |