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Show 2 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN "Now pick up a pig and walk. Now sit down and rest. No walk - now rest," etc. He worked when he was told to work and rested v'vhen he was told to rest, and at half-past five in the after noon had his 473 tons loaded on the car And he practically neve failed to work at this pace and do the task that was set him durin thfa th.ree years that the writer was at Bethlehem. And throughou this time he averaged a little more than $1.85 per day, wherea before he had never received over $1.15 per day, which was the rulin rate of wages at that time in Bethlehem That is, he received 6 per cent. higher wages than were paid to other men who were no working on task work One man after another was picked out an trained to handle pig-iron at the rate of 471 tons per day until al of the pig-iron was handled at this rate, and the men were receivin 60 per cent. more wages than other workmen around them The writer has given above a brief description of three of the fou elements which constitute the essence of scientific management first, the careful selection of the workman, and, second and third the method of first inducing and then training and helping the workNothing has a man to work according to the scientific method yet been said about the science of handling pig-iron. The write trusts, however, that before leaving this illustration the reader wil be thoroughly convinced that there is a science of handling pigiron, and that this science amounts to so much that the man who i suite to handle pig-iron cannot possibly understan it, nor eve work in accordance with the laws of this science, without the hel of those who are over him The writer came into the machine-shop of the Midvale Steel Compa te a na p a e t c se s i ve h v n af e 18 8 i pan maker and as a machinist This was close to the end of the lon wa bu in an s 18 3 o pa i th fo lowin period of depression a w r ge t m c a i m n fo i p s wa i l i so poor tha la or da a w r t ob ig wa h re so th Fo their trades af e so hi fo F r u a e instead of working as a mechanic T e st al ng f u wa sh th o cl r th he came into the shop th th e u a i m r h v n so was no one else available, an gi e wa h co le e fo p e a e be ha other laborers (since h a w r gi e wa h th af e Shortl the position of clerk ra he ou tu ne h a an la he th o machinist in running on af e la he si il o do n we more work than other machinist la he th ov g n - o m d w several month w r pi c o d n be ha sh Almost all of the work of thi for several years us a sti i a fa i an th n As was usua |
