Frederick W.Taylor
In this article “The Principles of Scientific Management,1911” Frederick w. Taylor describes the how “soldiering” directly affects workers lives, their wages and how they prosper. The causes and conditions, which he divided into three areas in (p.5) The first one he called the “fallacy” stage which consisted in trading man with machines and that would result in many men out jobs. The second stage The “defective” in which the manager would have to “soldier” it’s workers in order to protect their interest. And the third the “inefficient” stage and the most universal were the workers performs slow work and waste a lot of effort and time in.
In the fallacy stage Taylor mentions that no matter if we increased productive capacity or invent a new machine to increase production this would make the product less expensive because work that was formally done by hands was more costly to make. As a result of machines instead of people doing the labor, the product would be more accessible to the people and would become cheaper to make.
In (p.7) Taylor believed that the caused of soldering was because many workers have the natural instinct to not work as hard as they have to. This tendency increases when men of similar background start working in similar conditions and with the same pay day. All because men start believing that they shouldn’t work had if other workers doing the same work are not working hard and are getting the same pay as they are. In (p.8) Taylor explains a little more on how systematic soldering works he mentions is done by men with an intentional goal to keep their employers ignorant of how much faster the work can be done.
Taylor’s response was that implementing the rule of thumb instead of science as a rule was the way to do things more efficiently. In (p.10) Taylor describes how the worker and management should more have equal responsibilities and the management should also help in guiding the worker with the scientific laws. He believed that the method of rule of thumb eliminates the need of soldering and it increases the need for men in the work force instead of throwing men out of work and eliminating the fallacy stage. Taylor also believed that workers that are not under the watchful eye of management are more productive and happier at their jobs. Because they are under less stressful conditions.
