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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68 THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
strength to the very best advantage, and can then
assign them daily tasks which are so just that
the workman can each day be sure of earning the
large bonus which is paid whenever he successfully
performs this task.
There were about 600 shovelers and laborers of
this general class in the yard of the Bethlehem Steel
Company at this time. These men were scattered
in their work over a yard which was, roughly, about
two miles long and half a mile wide. In order that
each workman should be given his proper implement
and his proper instructions for doing each new job,
it was necessary to establish a detailed system for
directing men in their work, in place of the old plan
of handling them in large groups, or gangs, under a
few yard foremen. As each workman came into
the works in the morning, he took out of his own
special pigeonhole, with his number on the outside,
two pieces of paper, one of which stated just what
implements he was to get from the tool room and
where he was to start to work, and the second of
which gave the history of his previous day’s work;
that is, a statement of the work which he had done,
how much he had earned the day before, etc. Many
of these men were foreigners and unable to read and
write, but they all knew at a glance the essence of
this report, because yellow paper showed the man
that he had failed to do his full task the day before,
and informed him that he had not earned as much
as $1.85 a day, and that none but high-priced men
would be allowed to stay permanently with this