- Clearing up. This is the only type used by Scientific Management.
Directions, Pay Allowance and Time Allowance Essential.
— The Instruction Card under Scientific Management must contain directions, and state the pay allowance and time allowance.
Directions as to how the work shall be done eliminate waste by cutting out all wrong methods and prescribing the right method exactly.
The setting of a time in which the work is to be done is a great stimulus to the worker, and is also necessary, because upon the attainment of this set time depends the ability of the managers to pay the bonus to the worker, and also to maintain a schedule, or time-table, that will make possible the maintaining of necessary conditions for others, in turn, to earn their bonuses. It cannot be too often emphasized that the extra wages are paid to the men out of the savings, and are absolutely dependent upon the fact of there being savings. It is only when the worker does the work within the time prescribed, that the managers do save enough to warrant the payment of the extra wages that compensate the man for doing the stipulated quantity of work.
The instruction card contains a statement of the wage or bonus that will be earned for the complete performance of the task set therein, thus furnishing an incentive at the time that the work is done.
Standard Division of Instruction Card Necessary. — There are many reasons for dividing an instruction card in the present standard way, namely, —
(a) to reduce the amount