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Show 3 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN that an output of over 18 to 25 tons could be attained by any of th ‘It will be remembered that the Bethlehe ordinary expedients men were loading only 121 tons per man To go into the matter in more detail, however: As to the scientifi selection of the men, it is a fact that in this gang of 75 pig-iron handler only about one man in eight was physically capable of handling 47 With the very best of intentions, the other seve tons per day No out of eight men were physically unable to work at this pace the one man in eight who was able to do this work was in no sens H superior to the other men who were working on the gang merely happened to be a man of the type of the ox, - no rare specimen of humanity, difficult to find and therefore very highly prized On the contrary, he was a man so stupid that he was unfitted to d most kinds of laboring work, even. The selection of the man, then does not involve finding some extraordinary individual, but merel picking out from among very ordinary men the few who are especiall Although in this particular gang onl suited to this type of work one man in eight was suited to doing the work, we had not the slightes - some of the difficulty in getting all the men who were neede from inside of the works and others from the neighboring country who were exactly suited to the job Under the management of ‘"initiative and incentive" the attitud of the management is that of ""putting the work up to the workmen. What likelihood would there be, then, under the old type of management, of these men properly selecting themselves for pig-iro Would they be likely to get rid of seven men out of eigh handling from their own gang and retain only the eighth man No An The average distance of the piles of pig-iron from the car was 36 feet It is fact, however, that many of the pig-iron handlers ran with their pig as soon a they reached the inclined plank Many of them also would run down the plan after loading the car So that when the actual loading went on, many of the moved at a faster rate than is indicated by the above figures Practically th men were made to take a rest, generally by sitting down, after loading ten t twenty pigs This rest was in addition to the time which it took them to wal back from the car to the pile It is likely that many of those who are skeptica about the possibility of loading this amount of pig-iron do not realize that whil these men were walking back they were entirely free from load, and that therefore their muscles had, during that time, the opportunity for recuperation I will be noted that, with an average distance of 36 feet of the pig-iron from th car, these men walked about eight miles under load each day and eight mile free from load If any one who is interested in these figures will multiply them and divid them, one into the other, in various ways, he will find that all of the facts state check up exactly |
