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Show TH PRINCIPLE O SCIENTIFI MANAGEMEN 7 to produce This increase in the productivity of human effort is of course, due to many causes, besides the increase in the persona dexterity of the man It is due to the discovery of steam and electricity, to the introduction of machinery, to inventions, great an small, and to the progress in science and education But from whatever cause this increase in productivity has come, it is to the greate productivity of the individual that the whole country owes its greate prosperity The general adoption of scientific management would readily i the future double the productivity of the average man engaged i industrial work Think of what this means to the whole country Think of the increase, both in the necessities and luxuries of lif which becomes available, of the possibility of shortening the hour of work when this is desirable, and of the increased opportunitie for education, culture, and recreation which this implies Bu while the whole world would profit by this increase in production the manufacturer and the workman will be far more interested i the especial local gain that comes to them and to the peopl immediately around them./ Scientific management will mean, fo the employers and the workmen who adopt it - and particularl for those who adopt it firs - the elimination of almost all cause for dispute and disagreement between them What constitute a fair day's work will be a question for scientific investigation, instead of a subject to be bargained and haggled over Soldiering will cease because the object for soldiering will n longer exist.//The great increase in wages which accompanies thi type of management will largely eliminate the wage question as source of dispute. But more than all other causes, the close, intimat cooperation th constan persona contac betwee th tw sides, will tend to diminish friction and discontent. It is difficul for two people, whose interests are the same, and who work side b side in accomplishing the same object, all day long, to keep up quarrel The low cost of production which accompanies a doubling of th output will enable the companies who adopt this management, particularly those who adopt it first, to compete far better than the were able to before, and this will so enlarge their markets that thei men will have almost constant work even in dull times, and that the will earn large profits at all times This means increase in prosperity and diminution in poverty, no only for their men, but for the whole community immediately aroun them |
