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Taylorism - "Beat Practices"
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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