The Principles of Scientific Management
Forfatter: Frederick Winslow Taylor
År: 1919
Forlag: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Sted: New York and London
Sider: 144
UDK: 658.01 Tay
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32 THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
man to man by word of mouth, or have, in most
cases, been almost unconsciously learned through
personal observation. Practically in no instances
have they been codified or systematically analyzed
or described. The ingenuity and experience of each
generation — of each decade, even, have without
doubt handed over better methods to the next.
This mass of rule-of-thumb or traditional knowledge
may be said to be the principal asset or possession
of every tradesman. Now, in the best of the ordinary
types of management, the managers recognize frankly
the fact that the 500 or 1000 workmen, included in
the twenty to thirty trades, who are under them,
possess this mass of traditional knowledge, a large
part of which is not in the possession of the manage-
ment. The management, of course, includes fore-
men and superintendents, who themselves have been
in most cases first-class workers at their trades.
And yet these foremen and superintendents know,
better than any one else, that their own knowledge
and personal skill falls far short of the combined
knowledge and dexterity of all the workmen under
them. The most experienced managers therefore
frankly place before their workmen the problem of
doing the work in the best and most economical
way. They recognize the task before them as that
of inducing each workman to use his best endeavors,
his hardest work, all his traditional knowledge, his
skill, his ingenuity, and his good-will — in a word,
his “initiative,” so as to yield the largest possible
return to his employer. The problem before the