Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

MANAGEMENT: A PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION 27 and employed, between overseer and subordinate. It cannot be essayed without a large amount of previous constructive thinking and of hopeful patience. It must come to pass gradually, for it has to gain the consent and free co-operation of one personality after another. Yet the parts of the scheme are so interdependent that one cannot select one innovation recommended and discard the others as distasteful. Its founder has said, “ Do not start by saying you will give the idea a fair trial; you must begin with a determination to see it through.”1 That there is something worth trying for may be urged, perhaps, more forcibly in the words of an English economist who has just passed away, than by quoting the’ardent testimony of its advocates:— “ It is at once the employer’s self-interest and his social duty to find for his workers the place and conditions where their labour tells most. . . . “To him, in the division of labour, has fallen the high duty of organizing labour to earn its own wages.” 2 1 See F. W. Taylor, “ Shop Management,” p. 136. 2 Smart, " Second Thoughts of an Economist,” p. 169,