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
clearly defined task laid out before him. This task
should not in the least degree be vague nor indefinite,
but should be circumscribed carefully and completely,
and should not be easy to accomplish.
(b) Standard Conditions. — Each man’s task
should call for a full day’s work, and at the same
time the workman should be given such standard-
ized conditions and appliances as will enable him to
accomplish his task with certainty.
(c) High Pay for Success. — He should be sure
of large pay when he accomplishes his task.
(d) Loss in Case of Failure. — When he fails
he should be sure that sooner or later he will be the
loser by it.
When an establishment has reached an advanced
state of organization, in many cases a fifth element
should be added, namely: the task should be made
so difficult that it can only be accomplished by a
first-class man.
There is nothing new nor startling about any of
these principles and yet it will be difficult to find a
shop in which they are not daily violated over and
over again. They call, however, for a greater depar-
ture from the ordinary types of organization than
would at first appear. In the case, for instance, of
a machine shop doing miscellaneous work, in order
to assign daily to each man a carefully measured
task, a special planning department is required to
lay out all of the work at least one day ahead. All
orders must be given to the men in detail in writing;
and in order to lay out the next day’s work and plan
the entire progress of work through the shop, daily