Quote: scientific management increases employee wages while reducing costs; avoids antagonsism between employees and their employers

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throughout the industrial world, a large part of the organization of employers, as well as employees, is for war rather than peace ... The majority of these men believe that the fundamental interests of employees and employers are necessarily antagonistic. Scientific management, on the contrary, has for its very foundation the firm conviction that the true interests of the two are one and the same; that prosperity for the employer cannot exist through a long term of years unless it is accompanied by prosperity of the employee, and vice versa; and that it is possible to give the workman what he most wants--high wages--and the employer what he wants--a low labor cost-- for his manufactures.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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