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Show Ceacl o rgilt‘fi(': b]e 3H\ 1.1[8' g th tr,om an lttl Py k h()nle fo B8 b fie foun 124 smg) b wal Work a g exceeq lollar, ks aho chmidt g Sehnig d o dg i among th Way " YoU are 1t to fin se chea 1 10 ear ¢ Same 4 Q WH a8 Ver 55' k - Now pig-iro el 1 o TH PRINCIPLE OF SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN 2 "Vell -did I get $1.85 for loading dot pig-iron on dot ca to-morrow?" "Yes;of course you do, and you get $1.85 for loading a pile lik That is what a high-price that every day right through the year man does, and you know it just as well as I do. I could load dot pig-iron on the ca "Vell, dot's all right to-morrow for $1.85, and I get it every day, don't I? "Certainly you do - certainly you do. "Vell, den, I vas a high-priced man. "Now, hold on, hold on. You know just as well as I do that high-priced man has to do exactly as he's told from morning til night You have seen this man here before, haven't you? ""No, I never saw him. "Well, if you are a high-priced man, you will do exactly as thi man tells you to-morrow, from morning till night. When he tell you to pick up a pig and walk, you pick it up and you walk, and whe You do that righ he tells you to sit down and rest, you sit down straight through the day And what's more, no back talk No a high-priced man does just what he's told to do, and no back talk Do you understand that When this man tells you to walk, yo walk; when he tells you to sit down, you sit down, and you don' talk back to him Now, you come on to work here to-morro morning and I'll know before night whether you are really a highpriced man or not. This seems to be rather rough talk. And indeed it would be i applied to an educated mechanic, or even an intelligent laborer With a man of the mentally sluggish type of Schmidt it is appropriate and not unkind, since it is effective in fixing his attention o the high wages whjch he wants and away from what, if it were calle to his attention, he probably would consider impossibly hard work What would Schmidt's answer be if he were talked to in the manne which is usual under the management of ‘"initiative and incentive, say, as follows "Now, Schmidt, you are a first-class pig-iron handler and kno your business well You have been handling at the rate of 12 tons per day. ‘I have given considerable study to handling pigiron, and feel sure that you could do a much larger day's work tha you have been doing Now don't you think that if you really trie you could handle 47 tons of pig-iron per day, instead of 12% tons? What do you think Schmidt's answer would be to this Schmidt started to work, and all day long, and at regula intervals, was told by the man who stood over him with a watch |
