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Show TH 4 PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN the very best advantage, and can then assign them daily tasks whic are so just.that the workma large bonu whic can each day be sure of earning th is paid whenever he successfully performs thi task There were about 600 shovelers and laborers of this general clas in the yard of the Bethlehem Steel Company at this time Thes men were scattered in their work over a yard which was, roughly In order that each workabout two miles long and half a mile wide man should be given his proper implement and his proper instruction for doing each new job, it was necessary to establish a detailed syste for directing men in their work, in place of the old plan of handlin A them in large groups, or gangs, under a few yard foremen each workman came into the works in the morning, he took out o his own special pigeonhole, with his number on the outside, tw pieces of paper, one of which stated just what implements he wa to get from the tool room and where he was to start to work, and th -second of which gave the history of his previous day's work; that is a statement of the work which he had done, how much he had earne the day before, etc Many of these men were foreigners and unabl to read and write, but they all knew at a glance the essence of thi report, because yellow paper showed the man that he had failed t do his full task the day before, and informed him that he had no earned as much as $1.85 a day, and that none but high-priced me would be allowed to stay permanently with this gang The hope wa further expressed that he would earn his full wages on the followin day So that whenever the men received white slips they kne that everything was all right, and whenever they received yello slips they realized that they must do better or they would be shifte to some other class of work Dealing with every workman as a separate individual in this wa involved the building of a labor office for the superintendent an clerks who were in charge of this section of the work In this offic every laborer's work was planned out well in advance, and the workmen were all moved from place to place by the clerks with elaborat diagrams or maps of the yard before them, very much as chessme are moved on a chess-board, a telephone and messenger system hav ing been installed for this purpose In this way a large amount o the time lost through having too many men in one place and to fe i another eliminated an Unde throug th waitin old syste betwee jobs the workme wa wer entirel kep da after day in comparatively large gangs, each under a single foreman an th gang wa apt to remai of pretty nearl the sam siz |
