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Show 4 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN The members of this union are probably sincere in their belief tha this restriction of output is a benefit to their trade It should b plain to all men, however, that this deliberate loafing is almos criminal, in that it inevitably results in making every workman' family pay higher rent for their housing, and also in the end drive work and trade away from their city, instead of bringing it to it Why is it, in a trade which has been continually practised sinc before the Christian era, and with implements practically the sam as they now are, that this simplification of the bricklayer's movements, this great gain, has not been made before It is highly likely that many times during all of these years individual bricklayers have recognized the possibility of eliminatin each of these unnecessary motions But even if, in the past, he di invent each one of Mr. Gilbreth's improvements, no bricklayer coul alone increase his speed through their adoption because it will b remembered that in all cases several bricklayers work together i a row and that the walls all around a building must grow at the sam rate of speed No one bricklayer, then, can work much faste than the one next to him Nor has any one workman the authorit It i to make other men cooperate with him to do faster work only through enforced standardization of methods, enforced adoptio of the best implements and working conditions, and enforced coopera tion that this faster work can be assured And the duty of enforcin All of this involves an individual study of and treatment for eac man, while in the past they have been handled in large groups The management must also see that those who prepare the brick and the mortar and adjust the scaffold, etc., for the bricklayers cooperate with them by doing their work just right; and always o time, and they must also inform each bricklayer at frequent interval as to the progress he is making, so that he may not unintentionall fall off in his pace Thus it will be seen that it is the assumptio e not or cannot work i at the higher speedThe management mus will not submit to thi extra hard, unless the A R - those who, after proper teaching, either wil accordance with the new method an must be discharged by the management also recognize the broad fact that workme more rigid standardization and will not wor receive extra pay for doing it tinually one or more teachers to show each new man the new an simpler motions, and the slower men must be constantly watche and helped until they have risen to their proper speed All o the adoption of standards and of enforcing this cooperation rest with the management alone The management must supply con |