Quote: piece work leads to systematic soldiering; if increased productivity leads to decreased pay, workmen will deliberately mislead and deceive their employer

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Taylor, "Shop Management", June 1903] It is, however, under piece work that the art of systematic soldiering is thoroughly developed; after a workman has had the price per piece of the work he is doing lowered two or three times as a result of his having worked harder and increased his output, he is likely entirely to lose sight of his employer's side of the case and become imbued with a grim determination to have no more cuts if soldiering can prevent it. . Unfortunately for the character of the workman, soldiering involves a deliberate attempt to mislead and deceive his employer, and thus upright and straightforward workmen are compelled to become more or less hypocritical The employer is soon looked upon as an antagonist, if not an enemy   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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