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Show 2 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN practical illustrations It will be shown, first, that they can b applied absolutely to all classes of work, from the most elementar to the most intricate; and second, that when they are applied the results must of necessity be overwhelmingly greater than thos which it is possible to attain under the management of initiativ and incentive The first illustration is that of handling pig-iron, and this work i chosen because it is typical of perhaps the crudest and most elementary form of labor which is performed by man This work i done by men with no other implements than their hands. Th pig-iron handler stoops down, picks up a pig weighing about 9 pounds, walks for a few feet or yards and then drops it on to th ground or upon a pile This work is so crude and elementary in it nature that the writer firmly believes that it would be possible t train an intelligent gorilla so as to be a more efficient pig-iro handler than any man can be. Yet it will be shown that the scienc of handling pig-iron is so great and amounts to so much that it i impossible for the man who is best suited to this type of work t understand the principles of this science, or even to work in accord ance with these principles without the aid of a man better educate than he is." And the further illustrations to be given will make i clear that in almost all of the mechanic arts the science which underlies each workman's act is so great and amounts to so much tha the workman who is best suited actually to do the work is incapabl . (either through lack of education or through insufficient menta capacity) of understanding this science This is announced as general principle, the truth of which will become apparent as on illustration after another is given After showing these four elements in the handling of pig-iron, several illustrations will be give of their application to different kinds of work in the field of th mechanic arts, at intervals in a rising scale, beginning with th simplest and ending with the more intricate forms of labor Oneof the first pieces of work undertaken by us, when the write started to introduce scientific management into the Bethlehem Stee The opening o Company, was to handle pig-iron on task work the Spanish War found some 80,000 tons of pig-iron placed in smal Prices for pig-iron ha piles in an open field adjoining the works been so low that it could not be sold at a profit, and it therefore ha With the opening of the Spanish War the price o been stored pig-iron rose, and this large accumulation of iron was sold. Thi gave us a good opportunity to show the workmen, as well as th owners and managers of the works, on a fairly large scale the advan |
