Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

REMUNERATION 149 interests. Scientific management holds that the stimulus is best applied to the individual rather than to the working-staff as a whole, and that the reward should be immediate, not delayed. It has also freed itself from the objection that it is the men who earn the whole of the extra profit they are asked to “ share.” Profit-sharing is often liked by employers, especially where the men are encouraged to invest in the firm rather than draw out profits, because it attaches their men in a permanent way to the establishment; and it is distrusted by workmen for the same reason.1 Efficiency managers like to keep their trained men; but the leaders, from Taylor onwards, have always left them free to go to better work if they find it; nothing is done to attach them to a firm beyond trying to make their position in it satisfactory. 1 Readers who wish to pursue the subject will find advocacy of the methods in the tract, " Co-partnership in Industry,” by C. Carpenter, 6d. net. (Co-partnership Publishers), and criticism of them by a Socialist in Fabian Tract, No. 170, by E. R. Pease, id. These will also direct them to other literature. 1