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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EFFICIENCY METHODS
Per cent.
Railroads. H. Emerson.
(Brandeis, loc. cit.)
Results in this field are not easily compared with the
foregoing.
Average efficiency of workers increased from - 60-100
Average increase on output - - - 67
Average increase on wages - - - 20
The following special items are worth notice:—
At the Link Belt Works (see Drury, p. 161), the
decrease in the amount of stores carried per unit of
output was 33 per cent. This was partly caused,
however, by the increase in output.
Mr. Emerson says in “ Efficiency ” (p. 79), that
in the Santa Fé railroad works the average life of
belting has increased six-fold and the cost of
maintenance decreased to one-seventh by proper
attention.
An American enthusiast1 for efficiency methods
has lately discovered the kernel of the whole matter
in Bacon’s Twenty-fifth Essay—on Dispatch!
This little sermon on business certainly contains
singularly apropos remarks, upon which the business
man may well meditate ; so that the present writers
gladly adopt it as final comment, recognizing their
good fortune in being able to make an end with a
passage so well worth reading for its own sake.
“ Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous
1 H. D. Minich. “ Francis Bacon, Efficiency Engineer.”
Engineering Magazine, vol. xlvii., p. 733.