to the greatest benefit to managers and men when the work is divided, the management undertaking that part of the work that it is best fitted to do, the workmen performing that part which they are best fitted to do.
The Work of the Planning Department. — It has been determined by actual experience that the line of division most agreeable to the managers and the workmen and most productive of coöperation by both, as well as most efficient in producing low costs, is that which separates the planning from the performing. Under Scientific Management the Planning Department relieves the man of determining —
- what work is to be done.
- sequence in which it is to be done.
- method by which it shall be done.
- where it shall be done.
- which men shall do it.
- time that it shall take.
- exact quality of product.
- quantity of additional pay that shall be given for doing it.
Work of the Workers. — The men are simply given standard tasks to do, with teachers to help them, and a standard wage according to performance as a reward. Page 063 There are but three things expected of them: —
- coöperation with the management in obtaining the prescribed work, method and quality.
- the exercise of their ingenuity in making improvements after they have learned the standard prescribed practice.
- the fitting of themselves for