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Show TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN 2 in most of th workmen, an fully planne set a pace fo to abou shops in this country, the shop was really run by th The workmen together had carenot by the bosses just how fast each job should be done, and they ha each machine throughout the shop, which was limite ome-thir of a goo day' work Ever ne workma who came into the shop was told at once by other workmen exactl how much of each kind of work he was to do, and unless he obeye these instructions he was sure before long to be driven out of th place by the men .... As soon as the writer was made gang-boss, one after another o the men came to him and talked somewhat as follows "Now, Fred, we're very glad to see that you've been made gangYou know the game all right, and we're sure that you're no boss You come along with us, and everylikely to be a piece-work hog thing will be all right, but if you try breaking any of these rates yo can be mighty sure that we'll throw you over the fence. The writer told them plainly that he was now working on th side of the management, and that he proposed to do whatever h This immediatel could to get a fair day's work out of the lathes started a war; in most cases a friendly war, because the men who wer under him were his personal friends, but none the less a war, whic The writer used ever as time went on grew more and more bitter expedient to make them do a fair day's work, such as dischargin or lowering the wages of the more stubborn men who refused to mak any improvement, and such as lowering the piece-work price, hirin green men, and personally teaching them how to do the work wit the promise from them that when they had learned how, they woul the d a fair day' such pressure to bea constantl brough (both inside and outside the works upon al work Whil the me those who started to increase their output that they were finall compelled to do about as the rest did, or else quit. No one wh has not had this experience can have an idea of the bitterness whic In a war of this kin is gradually developed in such a struggle The the workmen have one expedient which is usually effective use their ingenuity to contrive various ways in which the machine tly b - appare which they are running are broken or damag accident, or in the regular course of work - and this they alway lay at the door of the foreman, who has forced them to drive th An machine so hard that it is over-strajned, and is being ruined there are few foremen indeed who are able to stand up against the com bined pressure of all of the men in the shop. In this case the proble was complicated by the fact that the shop ran both day and night |
