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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94
SHOP MANAGEMENT
The writer found this difficulty at first to be an
almost insurmountable obstacle to his work in
organizing manufacturing establishments; and after
years of experience, overcoming the opposition of
the heads of departments and the foremen and gang
bosses, and training them to their new duties, still
remains the greatest problem in organization. The
writer has had comparatively little trouble in
inducing workmen to change their ways and to
increase their speed, providing the proper object
lessons are presented to them, and time enough is
allowed for these to produce their effect. It is rarely
the case, however, that superintendents and fore-
men can find any reasons for changing their methods,
which, as far as they can see, have been successful.
And having, as a rule, obtained their positions owing
to their unusual force of character, and being ac-
customed daily to rule other men, their opposition
is generally effective.
In the writer’s experience, almost all shops are
under-officered. Invariably the number of leading
men employed is not sufficient to do the work eco-
nomically. Under the military type of organiza-
tion, the foreman is held responsible for the successful
running of the entire shop, and when we measure
his duties by the standard of the four leading prin-
ciples of management above referred to, it becomes
apparent that in his case these conditions are as far
as possible from being fulfilled. His duties may be
briefly enumerated in the following way. He must
lay out the work for the whole shop, see that each
piece of work goes in the proper order to the right