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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THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 49
men, and not by the bosses. The workmen together
had carefully planned just how fast each job should
be done, and they had set a pace for each machine
throughout the shop, which was limited to about
one-third of a good day’s work. Every new work-
man who came into the shop was told at once by
the other men exactly how much of each kind of
work he was to do, and unless he obeyed these in-
structions he was sure before long to be driven out
of the place by the men.
As soon as the writer was made gang-boss, one
after another of the men came to him and talked
somewhat as follows:
“Now, Fred, we’re very glad to see that you’ve
been made gang-boss. You know the game all right,
and we’re sure that you’re not likely to be a piece-
work hog. You come along with us, and every-
thing will be all right, but if you try breaking any
of these rates you can be mighty sure that we’ll
throw you over the fence.”
The writer told them plainly that he was now
working on the side of the management, and that
he proposed to do whatever he could to get a fair
day’s work out of the lathes. This immediately
started a war; in most cases a friendly war, because
the men who were under him were his personal
friends, but none the less a war, which as time
went on grew more and more bitter. The writer
used every expedient to make them do a fair day’s
work, such as discharging or lowering the wages of
the more stubborn men who refused to make any