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Table of Contents

DESCRIPTION AND GENERAL OUTLINE OF

  1. Contrary to a widespread belief that Scientific Management kills individuality, it is built on the basic Page 019 principle of recognition of the individual, not only as an economic unit but also as a personality, with all the idiosyncrasies that distinguish a person.
  1. Scientific Management fosters individuality by functionalizing work.
  1. Measurement, in Scientific Management, is of ultimate units of subdivision.
  1. These measured ultimate units are combined into methods of least waste.
  1. Standardization under Scientific Management applies to all elements.
  1. The accurate records of Scientific Management make accurate programmes possible of fulfillment.
  1. Through the teaching of Scientific Management the management is unified and made self-perpetuating.
  1. The method of teaching of Scientific Management is a distinct and valuable contribution to Education.
  1. Incentives under Scientific Management not only stimulate but benefit the worker.
  1. It is for the ultimate as well as immediate welfare of the worker to work under Scientific Management.
  1. Scientific Management is applicable to all fields of activity, and to mental as well as physical work.
  1. Scientific Management is applicable to self-management as well as to managing others.
  1. It teaches men to coöperate with the management as well as to manage. Page 020
  1. It is a device capable of use by all.
  1. The psychological element of Scientific Management is the most important element.
  1. Because Scientific Management is psychologically right it is the ultimate form of management.
  1. This psychological study of Scientific Management emphasizes especially the teaching features.
  1. Scientific Management simultaneously

a. increases output and wages and lowers costs.

b. eliminates waste.

c. turns unskilled labor into skilled.

d. provides a system of self-perpetuating welfare.

e. reduces the cost of living.

f. bridges the gap between the college trained and the apprenticeship trained worker.

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