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
59
yard labor as an illustration of the application of
the study of unit times as the foundation of success
in management, the following would seem to him a
fair comparison of the older methods with the more
modern plan.
For each job there is the quickest time in which
it can be done by a first-class man. This time may
be called the “quickest time,” or the “standard
time” for the job. Under all the ordinary systems,
this “quickest time” is more or less completely
shrouded in mist. In most cases, however, the work-
man is nearer to it and sees it more clearly than the
employer.
Under ordinary piece work the management watch
every indication given them by the workmen as to
what the “quickest time” is for each job, and en-
deavor continually to force the men toward this
“standard time,” while the workmen constantly
use every effort to prevent this from being done and
to lead the management in the wrong direction. In
spite of this conflict, however, the ‘‘standard time”
is gradually approached.
Under the Towne-Halsey plan the management
gives up all direct effort to reach this “quickest time,”
but offers mild inducements to the workmen to do
so, and turns over the whole enterprise to them.
The workmen, peacefully as far as the management
is concerned, but with considerable pulling and haul-
ing among themselves, and without the assistance
of a trained guiding hand, drift gradually and slowly
in the direction of the “standard time,” but rarely
approach it closely.