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Show TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN i another is also true as to whole districts of the country and even a to nations which are in competition In a word, that maximu prosperity can exist only as the result of maximum productivity Later in this paper illustrations will be given of several companie which are earning large dividends and at the same time paying fro 30 per cent. to 100 per cent. higher wages to their men than ar paid to similar men immediately around them, and with whos employers they are in competition These illustrations will cove different types of work, from the most elementary to the mos complicated If the above reasoning is correct, it follows that the most importan object of both the workmen and the management should be th training and development of each individual in the establishment, s that he can do (at his fastest pace and with the maximum of efficiency the highest class of work for which his natural abilities fit him These principles appear to be so self-evident that many men ma think it almost childish to state them Let us, however, turn t the facts, as they actually exist in this country and in England The English and American peoples are the greatest sportsmen in th world Whenever an American workman plays baseball, or a English workman plays cricket, it is safe to say that he strains ever nerve to secure victory for his side He does his very best to mak the largest possible number of runs. The universal sentiment i so strong that any man who fails to give out all there is in him i sport is branded as a ‘""quitter," and treated with contempt by thos who are around him When the same workman returns to work on the following day instead of using every effort to turn out the largest possible amoun of work, in a majority of the cases this man deliberately plans to d as little as he safely can - to turn out far less work than he is wel able to do - in many instances to do not more than one-third t one-half of a proper day's work And in fact if he were to do hi best to turn out his largest possible day's work, he would be abuse by his fellow-workers for so doing, even more than if he had prove himself a "quitter'" in sport Underworking, that is, deliberatel working slowly so as to avoid doing a full day's work, "soldiering, as it is called in this country, ‘‘hanging it out," as it is called i England, ‘""ca canae," as it is called in Scotland, is almost universa in industrial establishments, and prevails also to a large extent i the building trades; and the writer asserts without fear of contradiction that this constitutes the greatest evil with which the workingpeople of both England and America are now afflicted |