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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THF, PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 33
management, then, may be briefly said to be that
of obtaining the best initiative of every workman.
And the writer uses the word “initiative” in its
broadest sense, to cover all of the good qualities
sought for from the men.
On the other hand, no intelligent manager would
hope to obtain in any full measure the initiative of
his workmen unless he felt that he was giving them
something more than they usually receive from their
employers. Only those among the readers of this
paper who have been managers or who have worked
themselves at a trade realize how far the average
workman falls short of giving his employer his full
initiative. It is well within the mark to state that
in nineteen out of twenty industrial establishments
the workmen believe it to be directly against their
interests to give their employers their best initiative,
and that instead of working hard to do the largest
possible amount of work and the best quality of work
for their employers, they deliberately work as slowly
as they dare while they at the same time try to make
those over them believe that they are working fast.1
The writer repeats, therefore, that in order to
have any hope of obtaining the initiative of his
workmen the manager must give some special
incentive to his men beyond that which is given to
the average of the trade. This incentive can be
given in several different ways, as, for example,
1 The writer has tried to make the reason for this unfortunate state of
things clear in a paper entitled “Shop Management,” read before the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.”