Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

CHAPTER XIII REMUNERATION UNDER SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT In'their campaign to ensure efficiency, scientific managers find it essential to adopt some scheme of remuneration which will reconcile the workers to certain of the changes made, and will stimulate them to do their best. In the latter aim their problem is very much the same as that of other managers. It would be impossible to give here an adequate account of the schemes that have been launched during the last few decades with the object of giving the workman pecuniary incentive to get as much work done as he can. But brief reference must be made to some of them, to compare them with the methods of which we have to give account. When Dr. Taylor read his paper on “ A Piece- Rate System ” to the American Society of Mechani- cal Engineers in 1895/ his chief object was to introduce his hearers to the idea of time-study. Incidentally he sketched a “ differential ” piece-rate which he used to recompense his workmen in his new plans. He expressed surprise afterwards that thir- teen speakers commented on the latter, whereas 1 See Trans. of Amer. Soc. of Mechanical Engineers, vol. xvi. and C. B. Ihompson s Collection.