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Show 7 TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN no further change should be made Then one man after anothe should be tactfully changed over. After passing the point at whic from one-fourth to one-third of the men in the employ of the compan have been changed from the old to the new, very rapid progres can be made, because at about this time there is, generally, a complete revolution in the public opinion of the whole establishment an practically all of the workmen who are working under the old syste become desirous to share in the benefits which they see have bee received by those working under the new plan Inasmuch as the writer has personally retired from the busines of introducing this system of management (that is, from all wor done in return for any money compensation), he does not hesitat again to emphasize that fact that those companies are indeed fortunate who can secure the services of experts who have had th necessary practical experience in introducing scientific management It is not enoug and who have made a special study of its principles that a man should have been a manager in an establishment whic The man who undertake is run under this type of management to direct the steps to be taken in changing from the old to the ne (particularly in any establishment doing elaborate work) must hav had personal experience in overcoming the especial difficulties whic are always met with, and which are peculiar to this period of transiIt is for this reason that the writer expects to devote the res tion of his life chiefly to trying to help those who wish to take up thi work as their profession, and to advising the managers and owners o companies in general as to the steps which they should take in makin this change As a warning to those who contemplate adopting scientific manageSeveral men who lacked th ment, the following instance is given extended experience which is required to change without danger o strikes, or without interference with the success of the business from the management of ‘‘initiative and incentive'" to scientifi management, attempted rapidly to increase the output in quite a elaborate establishment, employing between three thousand and fou Those who undertook to make this change were me thousand men of unusual ability, and were at the same time enthusiasts and, think, had the interests of the workmen truly at heart. They were however, warned by the writer, before starting, that they must g exceedingly slowly, and that the work of making the change in thi establishmen years Thi coul warnin not be don the in less tha entirel disregarded fro three to fiv The evidentl believed that by using much of the mechanism of scientific manage |
