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Show TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN 4 special permit, signed by the General Superintendent of the works this special permit to extend for one week only. It was arrange that as far as possible each laborer should be given a separate individual task. As there were about 5000 men at work in the establishment, the General Superintendent had so much to do that ther was but little time left for signing these special permits After gang work had been by this means broken up, an unusuall fine set of ore shovelers had been developed, through careful selectio Each of these men was given and individual, scientific training separate car to unload each day, and his wages depended upon hi The man who unloaded the largest amoun own personal work of ore was paid the highest wages, and an unusual opportunity cam each workman for demonstrating the importance of individualizin Much of this ore came from the Lake Superior region, and the sam ore was delivered both in Pittsburg and in Bethlehem in exactl similar cars. There was a shortage of ore handlers in Pittsburg and, hearing of the fine gang of laborers that had been develope at Bethlehem, one of the Pittsburg steel works sent an agent t The Pittsburg men offered 41% cents hire the Bethlehem men ton for unloading exactly the same ore, with the same shovels from the sam cars that were unloade in Bethlehe for 3 cent a ton. After carefully considering this situation, it was decide that it would be unwise to pay more than 3+% cents per ton fo unloading the Bethlehem cars, because, at this rate, the Bethlehe laborers were earning a little over $1.85 per man per day, and thi price was 60 per cent. more than the ruling rate of wages aroun Bethlehem A long series of experiments, coupled with close observation, ha demonstrated the fact that when workmen of this caliber are give a carefully measured task, which calls for a big day's work on thei part, and that when in return for this extra effort they are paid wage up to 60 per cent. beyond the wages usually paid, that this increas in wages tends to make them not only more thrifty but better me in every way; that they live rather better, begin to save money " become more sober, and work more steadily When, on the othe hand, they receive much more than a 60 per cent. increase in wages man of them will wor irregularly and tend to becom more o less shiftless, extravagant, and dissipated. Our experiments showed in other words, that it does not do for most men to get rich too fast After deciding, for this reason, not to raise the wages of our or handlers, these men were brought into the office one at a time, an talked to somewhat as follows |
