The Principles of Scientific Management

FUNDAMENTALS OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 27 It will be shown by a series of practical illustra- tions that, through this friendly cooperation, namely, through sharing equally in every day’s burden, all of the great obstacles (above described) to obtain- ing the maximum output for each man and each machine in the establishment are swept away. The 30 per cent, to 100 per cent, increase in wages which the workmen are able to earn beyond what they receive under the old type of management, coupled with the daily intimate shoulder to shoulder contact with the management, entirely removes all cause for soldiering. And in a few years, under this system, the workmen have before them the object lesson of seeing that a great increase in the output per man results in giving employment to more men, instead of throwing men out of work, thus completely eradi- cating the fallacy that a larger output for each man will throw other men out of work. It is the writer’s judgment, then, that while much can be done and should be done by writing and talk- ing toward educating not only workmen, but all classes in the community, as to the importance of obtaining the maximum output of each man and each machine, it is only through the adoption of modern scientific management that this great prob- lem can be finally solved. Probably most of the readers of this paper will say that all of this is mere theory. On the contrary, the theory, or philosophy, of scientific management is just beginning to be understood, whereas the management itself has been a gradual evolution, extending over a period