5 Assignment 05

Due Sunday, October 2nd, by midnight. Word count: 400 words. Please make sure everything is in your own words. If you paraphrase (which I encourage you to do) make sure to include the proper citation.

In Frederick Taylor’s work on “The Principles of Scientific Management,” he (1911:4) argues that it is a general quality of the working man that “instead of using every effort to turn out the largest possible amount of work, in a majority of the cases this man deliberately
plans to do as little as he safely can to turn out far less work than he is well able to do, in many instances to do not more than one-third to one-half of a proper day’s work. And in fact if he were to do his best to turn out his largest possible day’s work, he would be abused by his fellow workers for so doing, even more than if he had proved himself a ‘quitter’ in sport.”  In your own words, describe Taylor’s response to this problem, of obtaining the maximum output of men and machines.