Shop Management
Forfatter: Frederick Winslow Taylor
År: 1911
Forlag: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Sted: New York and London
Sider: 207
UDK: 658.01 Tay
With an introduction by Henry R. Towne
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SHOP MANAGEMENT
worth living. Viewed from the managers’ stand-
point they are valuable aids in making more intelli-
gent and better workmen, and in promoting a kindly
feeling among the men for their employers. They
are, however, of distinctly secondary importance,
and should never be allowed to engross the attention
of the superintendent to the detriment of the more
important and fundamental elements of manage-
ment. They should come in all establishments,
but they should come only after the great problem
of work and wages has been permanently settled
to the satisfaction of both parties. The solution of
this problem will take more than the entire time of
the management in the average case for several
years.
Mr. Patterson, of the National Cash Register
Company, of Dayton, Ohio, has presented to the
world a grand object lesson of the combination of
many philanthropic schemes with, in many respects,
a practical and efficient management. He stands
out a pioneer in this work and an example of a kind-
hearted and truly successful man. Yet I feel that
the recent strike in his works demonstrates all the
more forcibly my contention that the establishment
of the semi-philanthropic schemes should follow
instead of preceding the solution of the wages ques-
tion; unless, as is very rarely the case, there are
brains, energy and money enough available in a
company to establish both elements at the same
time.
Unfortunately there is no school of management.
There is no single establishment where a relatively