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Taylorism - "Beat Practices"
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The managers assume, for instance, the burden of gathering together all of the traditional knowledge | |
which in the past has been possessed by the workmen and then of classifying, | |
tabulating, and reducing this knowledge to rules, laws, and formulæ which are | |
immensely helpful to the workmen in doing their daily work. | |
In addition to developing a science in this way, the management take on three other types of | |
duties which involve new and heavy burdens for themselves. | |
These new duties are grouped under four heads: | |
First. They develop a science for each element of a man's work, which | |
replaces the old rule-of-thumb method. | |
Second. They scientifically select and then train, teach, and develop the | |
workman, whereas in the past he chose his own work and trained himself as | |
best he could. | |
Third. They heartily cooperate with the men so as to insure all of the work | |
being done in accordance with the principles of the science which has been | |
developed. | |
Fourth. There is an almost equal division of the work and the responsibility | |
between the management and the workmen. The management take over all work for | |
which they are better fitted than the workmen, while in the past almost all | |
of the work and the greater part of the responsibility were thrown upon the | |
men. |
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