Quote: assess every improvement suggested by workmen; adopt a new standard if markedly superior; reward the workman

Quotation

Every encouragement ... should be given [the workman] to suggest improvements, both in methods and in implements. And whenever a workman proposes an improvement, it should be the policy of the management to make a careful analysis of the new method, and if necessary conduct a series of experiments to determine accurately the relative merit of the new suggestion and of the old standard. And whenever the new method is found to be markedly superior to the old, it should be adopted as the standard for the whole establishment. The workman should be given the full credit for the improvement, and should be paid a cash premium as a reward for his ingenuity.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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