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
class, the job should be subdivided into a number
of divisions, and a separate time and price assigned
to each division rather than to assign a single time
and price for the whole job. This should be done
for several reasons, the most important of which is
that the average workman, in order to maintain a
rapid pace, should be given the opportunity of meas-
uring his performance against the task set him at
frequent intervals. Many men are incapable of
looking very far ahead, but if they see a definite
opportunity of earning so many cents by working
hard for so many minutes, they will avail themselves
of it.
As an illustration, the steel tires used on car wheels
and locomotives were originally turned in the Mid-
vale Steel Works on piece work, a single piece-work
rate being paid for all of the work which could be
done on a tire at a single setting. A fixed price was
paid for this work, whether there was much or little
metal to be removed, and on the average this price
was fair to the men. The apparent advantage of
fixing a fair average rate was, that it made rate-
fixing exceedingly simple, and saved clerk work in
the time, cost and record keeping.
A careful time study, however, convinced the
writer that for the reasons given above most of the
men failed to do their best. In place of the single
rate and time for all of the work done at a setting,
the writer subdivided tire-turning into a number of
short operations, and fixed a proper time and price,
varying for each small job, according to the amount
of metal to be removed, and the hardness and