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Show TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN ment, in combination with the principles of the management o "Initiative and incentive," instead of with the principles of scientifi management that they could do, in a year or two, what ha bee proved in the past to require at least double this time. The knowledge obtained from accurate time study, for example, is a powerfu implement, and can be used, in one case to promote harmony betwee the workmen and the management, by gradually educating, training and leading the workmen into new and better methods of doing th work, or, in the other case, it may be used more or less as a club t drive the workmen into doing a larger day's work for approximatel the same pay that they received in the past Unfortunately th men who had charge of this work did not take the time and the troubl required to train functional foremen, or teachers, who were fitte gradually to lead and educate the workmen They attempted through the old-style foreman, armed with his new weapon (accurat time study), to drive the workmen, against their wishes, and withou much increase in pay, to work much harder, instead of graduall teaching and leading them toward new methods, and convincin them through object-lessons that task management means for the somewhat harder work, but also far greater prosperity The resul of all this disregard of fundamental principles was a series of strikes followed by the downfall of the men who attempted to make th change, and by a return to conditions throughout the establishmen far worse than those which existed before the effort was made This instance is cited as an object-lesson of the futility of usin the mechanism of the new management while leaving out its essence and also of trying to shorten a necessarily long operation in entir disregard of past experience It should be emphasized that th men who undertook this work were both able and earnest, and tha failure was not due to lack of ability on their part, but to their underThese particular men will not agai taking to do the impossible make a similar mistake, and it is hoped that their experience may ac as a warning to others In this connection, however, it is proper again to state that durin the thirty years that we have been engaged in introducing scientifi management there has not been a single strike from those who wer working in accordance with its principles, even during the critica time during which the change was being made from the old to th If proper methods are used by men who have had experienc new in this work, there is absolutely no danger from strikes or othe troubles The writer would again insist that in no case should the manager |