Quote: a workman is incapable of understanding all aspects of his work; scientific management requires close, personal cooperation between management and staff

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This paper will show that the underlying philosophy of all of the old systems of management in common use makes it imperative that each workman shall be left with the final responsibility for doing his job practically as he thinks best, with comparatively little help and advice from management. ... in almost all of the mechanic arts the science which underlies each act of each workman is so great and amounts to so much that the workman who is best suited to actually doing the work is incapable of fully understanding this science, [p. 26] without the guidance and help of those who are working with him or over him, either through lack of education or through insufficient mental capacity. In order that the work may be done in accordance with scientific laws, it is necessary that there shall be a far more equal division of responsibility between the management and the workmen than exists under any of the ordinary types of management. ... This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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