Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management
Forfatter: A.D. McKillop, M. McKillop
År: 1917
Forlag: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.
Sted: London
Sider: 215
UDK: 658.01. mac kil. gl
With 6 Illustrations.
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130 * EFFICIENCY METHODS
Mr. Emerson proceeded to investigate the separate
counts for which a workman is paid. Obviously it
was for something beyond his mere time. . At any
rate everyone was agreed that it was unsatisfactory
to pay him for time merely. Dr. Taylor ten years
before, in his own paper had spoken very strongly
against the slackness of workers, as he knew them
when on a time-wage. The American slang for this
slackness when deliberate is “ soldiering. 1 Read-
ing this in war-time, one recalls with an effort the
obvious derivation of this word to describe attitude
to work. Mr. Emerson remarked in the paper above
quoted that soldiers, sailors, and more notably fire-
men, have to be paid regular time-wages for doing
nothing for long periods of time, and performing
unusually strenuous exertion at other times.
It is generally said now that soldiering in
America is by no means as serious as Taylor repre-
sented it. When Mr. Hoxie’s committee, represent-
ing the U.S.A. Commission on Industrial Relations
in 1914, presented in writing Dr. Taylor s claims
for Scientific Management ” to Mr. Gantt and Mr.
Harrington Emerson for confirmation, both of
them picked out the statement, “ It tends to prevent
soldiering ” for exception, with the remark, “ True,
but unimportant.” 3 Schloss s impartial investiga-
tions in England go to show that systematic slacking
under a time-wage is not as a rule very feasible.
1 " a Piece-Rate System,” § 22. C. B. Thompson’s Col-
lection v. 344* “ ShoP Management,” p. 30.
2 R ’ F. Hoxie, " Scientific Management and Labour, Ap-
pendix II., par. A 10, and pp. 151 and 1661