Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

162 EFFICIENCY METHODS were contented. Doubtless, as a rule, his inter- course with, and influence over, his men were of an excellent, friendly and humanizing nature; but there is equally no doubt that his method of treating them tended to weaken their power and opportunity of combination. We see in that passage in “ Shop Management ” (p. 68), where he makes his well- deserved boast that he had no strikes, that there was a tendency for his men to leave their Unions—a fact of which he seems to have been equally proud. We select the following from his last pronouncement on his system, given by Hoxie in his Appendix II. : A. 5 f. [Scientific management benefits the worker] By treating each worker as an indepen- dent personality. B. 6 b. By substituting the rule of law [meaning scientific law] for the arbitrary de- cision of foremen, employers, and Unions. C. 20. Scientific management makes collective bargaining and trades unionism un- necessary as means of protection to the worker. D. 2i. Scientific management, however, wel- comes the co-operation of unionism.1 E. 22. Scientific management tends to prevent strikes and industrial warfare. 1 No indication is given of how or where it is to co-operate. It would surely have been advisable to suggest that the Union should give definite help in investigating what the scientific laws were.