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Show 5 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN Eac of bricklaying) is the most interesting and spectacular the three others is, however, quite as necessary for success o It must not be forgotten that back of all this, and directing it there must be the optimistic, determined, and hard-working leade who can wait patiently as well as work The illustrations have thus far been purposely confined to the mor elementary types of work, so that a very strong doubt must stil remain as to whether this kind of cooperation is desirable in th case of more intelligent mechanics, that is, in the case of men wh are more capable of generalization, and who would therefore be mor likely, of their own volition, to choose the more scientific an The following illustrations will be given for th better methods purpose of demonstrating the fact that in the higher classes of wor the scientific laws which are developed are so intricate that the highpriced mechanic needs (even more than the cheap laborer), th cooperation of men better educated than himself in finding th laws, and then in selecting, developing, and training him to work i These illustrations should make peraccordance with these laws fectly clear our original proposition that in practically all of th mechanic arts the science which underlies each workman's act is sogreat and amounts to so much that the workman who is best suite to actually do the work is incapable, either through lack of education or through insufficient mental capacity, of understanding thi science A doubt, for instance, will remain in the minds perhaps of mos readers (in the case of an establishment which manufactures th same machine, year in and year out, in large quantities, and i which, therefore, each mechanic repeats the same limited series o operations over and over again) whether the ingenuity of each workman and the help which he from time to time receives from hi foreman will not develop such superior methods and such a persona dexterity that no scientific study which could be made would resul in a material increase in efficiency A number of years ago a company employing about three hundre men, which had been manufacturing the same machine for ten t fifteen years, sent for us to report as to whether any gain could b made through the introduction of scientific management Thei shops have been run for many years under a good superintenden Th and with excellent foremen and workmen, on piece work whole establishment was, without doubt, in better physical condiThe supertion than the average machine-shop in this country intenden wa distinctl displease whe tol tha throug th |