Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

THE INSTALLATION OF EFFICIENCY METHODS 20? lished, for any success to be continuous there must still be the right sort of men in charge to carry on the concern in the right way. No manager would consent to have his record marked up periodically by statistics alone as if it were a mere matter of arithmetical computation. It would probably be a great service to the British industrial world generally if some municipal or other public industrial undertaking were allowed to instal efficiency methods according to the best possible lights, and to work quietly, without much publicity or outside criticism, for three or four years ; after which it might invite and carry out a thorough investigation from within and without, and issue a report of results which would be without any bias. Success could be acknowledged and traced to its proper source; failure could be acknowledged just as freely, without any reason for concealment, and even a failure would be an experiment of great public utility, and, as such, worth some expenditure of public money. The following figures have been taken from the works of Taylor and Gantt, from H. B. Drury’s book, and from Mr. Brandeis’s brief in favour of Scientific Management at the Interstate Com- mission. They have been recalculated in a good many instances so that they may all be presented in the same form. Bethlehem Works. F. W. Taylor. Per cent. (" Shop Management,” p. 34.) Cost of handling 1 ton raw material decreased by - - 54 Average earnings per man increased by - - - 61