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