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THE PRACTICE OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT 1 Scientific Management is simply management based upon measurement. Being thus based, it must be not only the result of measurement, but also subject at every stage of its development to accurate measurement, and it must be willing to abide by the results of such measurement. The time has passed when Scientific Management can be content with basing its claim to being effi- cient upon the perfection of its theory. To-day such management must submit to accurate meas- urement of its practical results. It must demon- strate its value in practice. In order to demonstrate this value of Scientific Management must show itself not only able to supply those needs of the employer and the em- ploye that are supplied by any worth while sys- tem of management, but also its ability to supply needs that other types of management cannot supply, and its ability to meet and solve all prob- lems raised by its peculiar and characteristic 1 Presented at The Wisconsin Commercial and Industrial Congress, 191G. 158