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Show 1 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN most wants - high wages - and the employer wha low labor cost - for his manufactures It is hope that som at least of those wh he wants - do not sympathiz with each of these objects may be led to modify their views tha some employers, whose attitude toward their workmen has been tha of trying to ge possible wages their men wil who begrudg the largest amount of work out of them for the smalles may be led to see that a more liberal policy towar pay them better; and that some of those workme a fair and even a large profit to their employers, an who feel that all of the fruits of their labor should belong to them and that those for whom they work and the capital invested i the business are entitled to little or nothing, may be led to modif these views No one can be found who will deny that in the case of any singl individual the greatest prosperity can exist only when that individua has reached his highest state of efficiency, that is, when he is turnin out his largest daily output The trut men workin have becom pairs of shoe making onl of this fact is also perfectly clear in the case of tw To illustrate, if you and your workma together so skilful that you and he together are making tw in a day, while your competitor and his workman ar one pair, it is clear that after selling your two pair of shoes you can pay your workman much higher wages than you competitor who produces only one pair of shoes is able to pay hi man, and that there will still ke enough money left over for you t have a larger profit than your competitor In the case of a more complicated manufacturing establishment it should also be perfectly clear that the greatest permanent prosperit for the workman, coupled with the greatest prosperity for th employer, can be brought about only when the work of the establishment is done with the smallest combined expenditure of huma effort, plus nature's resources, plus the cost for the use of capita in the shape of machines, buildings, ete Or, to state the sam thing in a different way: that the greatest prosperity can exist onl as the result of the greatest possible productivity of the men an machines of the establishment, that is, when each man and eac machine are turning out the largest possible output; because unles your men and your machines are daily turning out more work tha others around you, it is clear that competition will prevent you paying higher wages to your workmen than are paid to those of you competitor And what is true as to the possibility of paying hig wages in the case of two companies competing close beside on |
