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Show 6 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN superior to the old, it should be adopted as the standard for th The workman should be given the full credi whole establishment for the improvement, and should be paid a cash premium as reward for his ingenuity In this way the true initiative of th workmen is better attained under scientific management than unde the old individual plan The history of the development of scientific management up t The mechanism o date, however, calls for a word of warning management must not be mistaken for its essence, or underlyin philosophy Precisely the same mechanism will in one case proTh duce disastrous results and in another the most beneficent same mechanism, which will produce the finest results when made t serve the underlying principles of scientific management, will lea to failure and disaster if accompanied by the wrong spirit in thos who are using it. Hundreds of people have already mistaken th mechanism which is used in scientific management for its essence Messrs. Gantt, Barth, and the writer have presented papers to Th American Society of Mechanical Engineers on the subject of scientifi management In these papers the mechanism which is used has bee described at some length cited Time study, with th As elements of this mechanism may b implement an method fo properl making it Functional or d1v1ded foremanship and its superiority to the oldfashioned single foreman The standardization of all tools and implements used in the trades and also of the acts or movements of workmen for eac work The desirability of a planning room or department class o The "exception principle" in management The use of slide-rules and similar time-saving implements Instruction cards for the workman The task idea in management, accompanied by a large bonus fo the successful performance of the task The "differential rate. Mnemonic systems for ‘classifying manufactured products as wel as implements used in manufacturing A routing system Modern cost system, etc., ete These are, however, merely the elements or details of the mechanism of management Scientific management, in its essence consists of a certain philosophy, which results as before state |