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Show TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN 3 no expedient could be devised which would make these men properl Even if they fully realized the necessity of doin select themselves . 80 in order to obtain high wages (and they are not sufficiently intelligent properly to grasp this necessity), the fact that their friends o their brothers who were working right alongside of them woul temporarily be thrown out of a job because they were not suite to this kind of work would entirely prevent them from properl selecting themselves, that is, from removing the seven out of eigh men on the gang who were unsuited to pig-iron handling As to the possibility, under the old type of management, of inducin these pig-iron handlers (after they had been properly selected) t work in accordance with the science of doing heavy laboring, namely having proper scientifically determined periods of rest in clos sequence to periods of work As has been indicated before, th essential idea of the ordinary types of management is that each workman has become more skilled in his own trade than it is possible fo any one in the management to be, and that, therefore, the detail of how the work shall best be done must be left to him The idea then, of taking one man after another and training him under competent teacher into new working habits until he continually an habitually works in accordance with scientific laws, which hav been developed by some one else, is directly antagonistic to the ol idea that each workman can best regulate his own way of doing th work And besides this, the man suited to handling pig-iron is to stupid properly to train himself Thus it will be seen that wit the ordinary types of management the development of scientifi knowledge to replace rule of thumb, the scientific selection of th men, and inducing the men to work in accordance with scientifi principles are entirely out of the question And this because th _philosophy of the old management puts the entire responsibilit upon the workmen, while the philosophy of the new places a grea part of it upon the management With most readers great sympathy will be aroused because seve out of eight of these pig-iron handlers were thrown out of a job This sympathy is entirely wasted, because almost all of them wer immediately given other jobs with the Bethlehem Steel Company And indeed it should be understood that the removal of these me from pig-iron handling, for which they were unfit, was really a kindness to themselves, because it was the first step toward finding the work for which they were peculiarly fitted, and at which, afte receiving proper training, they could permanentl earn higher wages and legitimatel |
