priciples of scientific managment
...nother. For example the collection of pig iron in steel mills, skill of shoveling different things around the steel mill. They achieved very good results with the methods of scientific management. The results were an increase in efficiency. This was because the workers were working with improved skills and more productive movements. This in turn produced an increase of productivity. Which gave an in increase in profits for the company, alloying wage increases for workers and foreman. It also raised the quality of life for these workers as is illustrated by the quote form page 71, paragraph 3 “Perhaps the most important of all the results attained was the effect on the workmen themselves. A careful inquiry into the condition of these men developed the fact that out of the 140 workmen only two were said to be drinking men. These men constituted the finest body of picked laborers that the writer has ever seen together. They looked upon the men who were over them, their bosses and their teachers, as their very best friends; not as nigger drivers, forcing them to work extra hard for ordinary wages, but as friends who were teaching them and helping them to earn much higher wages than they had ever earned before.” It is evident also that this result has been brought about by the application of the four fundamental principles of scientific management.” The workers would agree to these new techniques because they were rewarded with higher wages than they had ever received, because they were able to do more in the same amount of time. It also increased the quality of work conditions, because workers were no longer at odds with the foreman. It decreased work hours in general, because they were able to do better and more work in less hours. Finally it generally increased the quality of life because they were in better shape and had a better outlook on life. Some reasons workers might abject to these new techni...