The Psychology of Management by Lillian Moller Gilbreth
5. The quality of the output is prescribed.
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When to this is added the fact that the method is taught, and
that the reward is ample, fixed, prompt and assured, the attractive
features of the task under Scientific Management have been made plain.
TASK IDEA APPLIES TO WORK OF EVERYONE.--Under Scientific
Management there is a task for every member of the organization,
from the head of the management to the worker at the most
rudimentary work. This is too often not known, or not appreciated by
the worker, who feels that what is deemed best for him should be
good for everyone. The mental attitude will never be right till all
understand that the task idea will increase efficiency when applied
to any possible kind of work. With the application of the task idea
to all, will come added coöperation.
TASK IDEA APPLIES TO THE WORK OF THE ORGANIZATION.--The work
which is to be done by the organization should be considered the
task of the organization, and this organization task is studied
before individual tasks are set. The methods used in determining
this organization task are analysis and synthesis, just as in the
case of the individual task.
INDIVIDUAL TASKS ARE ELEMENTS OF ORGANIZATION TASK.--The
individual tasks are considered as elements of the organization
task. The problem is, to determine the best arrangement of these
individual tasks, the best schedule, and routing. The individual
task may be thought of as something moving, that must be gotten out
of the way.
Management has been called largely a matter of transportation.
It may be "transportation" or moving of materials, revolution of
parts of fixed machinery, or merely transportation of parts of one's
body in manual movements;[7] in any case, the laws governing
transportation apply to all. This view of management is most
stimulating to the mind. A moving object attracts attention and
holds interest. Work that is interesting can be accomplished with
greater speed and less fatigue. Thinking in terms of the methods of
Scientific Management as the most accurate and efficient in
transporting the finished output and its "chips"[8] will be a great
aid towards attaining the best results possible by means of a new
method of visualizing the problem.
QUALIFICATIONS OF THE SYNTHESIST.--The synthesist must have a
constructive mind, for he determines the sequence of events as well
as the method of attack. He must have the ability to see the
completed whole which he is trying to make, and to regard the
elements with which he works not only as units, but in relation to
each other. He must feel that any combination is influenced not only
by the elements that go into it, but by the inter-relation between
these elements. This differs for different combinations as in
a kaleidoscope.
THE SYNTHESIST A CONSERVER.--The Synthesist must never be
thought of as a destructive critic. He is, in reality, a conserver
of all that is valuable in old methods. Through his work and that of
the analyst, the valuable elements of traditional methods are
incorporated into standard methods. These standard methods will,
doubtless, be improved as time goes on, but the valuable elements
will be permanently conserved.
SYNTHESIST AN INVENTOR.--The valuable inventions referred to as
the result of measurement are the work of the synthetic mind. It
discovers new, better methods of doing work, and this results in the
invention of better means, such as tools or equipment.
For example,--in the field of Bricklaying, the Non-stooping
Scaffold, the Packet and the Fountain Trowel were not invented until
the analysis of bricklaying was made, and the synthesis of the
chosen elements into standard methods made plain the need and
specifications for new equipment.
RELATION OF INVENTION TO SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT IMPORTANT.--There
has been much discussion as to the relation of Invention to
Scientific Management. It has been claimed by many otherwise able
authorities that many results claimed as due to Scientific
Management are really the results of new machinery, tools or
equipment that have been invented.[9] Scientific Management
certainly can lay no claim to credit for efficiency which comes
through inventions neither suggested nor determined by it. But the
inventions from the results of which Scientific Management is said
to have borrowed credit are usually, like the bricklaying inventions
cited, not only direct results of Scientific Management, but
probably would not have sprung from any other source for years
to come.
SYNTHESIST A DISCOVERER OF LAWS.--It is the synthetic type of
mind that discovers the laws. For example--it was Dr. Taylor, with
the aid of a few of his specially trained co-workers, who discovered
the following governing laws:
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. CHAPTER I PAGE
3. CHAPTER II
4. CHAPTER III
5. CHAPTER IV
6. CHAPTER V
7. CHAPTER VI
8. CHAPTER VII
9. CHAPTER VIII
10. CHAPTER IX
11. CHAPTER X
12. CHAPTER I
13. 1. Management is a life study of every man who works with other
14. 2. A knowledge of the underlying laws of management is the most
15. 3. This knowledge is to be had _now_. The men who have it are
16. 4. The psychology of, that is, the mind's place in management is
17. 5. It is a division well fitted to occupy the attention of the
18. introduction to psychology and to management, can suggest the
19. 2. what we have defined as the "Transitory" plan of
20. 3. management which not only is not striving to be
21. 4. the distinctive name is the Taylor Plan of Management.
22. 1. To enumerate the underlying principles on which scientific
23. 2. To show in how far the other two types of management vary
24. 3. To discuss the psychological aspect of each principle.
25. 1. The relation of Scientific Management to the other types
26. 3. The relation between the various elements of Scientific
27. 4. The psychology of management in general, and of the three
28. 9. Welfare.
29. 2. Appearance and importance of the idea in Traditional and
30. 3. Appearance and importance of the idea in Scientific
31. 4. Elements of Scientific Management which show the effects
32. 5. Results of the idea upon work and workers.
33. 3. Contrary to a widespread belief that Scientific Management
34. 4. Scientific Management fosters individuality by
35. 5. Measurement, in Scientific Management, is of ultimate
36. 6. These measured ultimate units are combined into methods of
37. 7. Standardization under Scientific Management applies to all
38. 8. The accurate records of Scientific Management make
39. 9. Through the teaching of Scientific Management the
40. 10. The method of teaching of Scientific Management is a
41. 11. Incentives under Scientific Management not only stimulate
42. 12. It is for the ultimate as well as immediate welfare of
43. 13. Scientific Management is applicable to all fields of
44. 14. Scientific Management is applicable to self-management as
45. 15. It teaches men to coöperate with the management as well
46. 17. The psychological element of Scientific Management is the
47. 18. Because Scientific Management is psychologically right it
48. 19. This psychological study of Scientific Management
49. 20. Scientific Management simultaneously
50. 2. Halbert P. Gillette, Paper No. 1, American Society of
51. 6. F.W. Taylor, _Shop Management_, para. 16, Am. Soc. M.E., Paper
52. 9. Morris Llewellyn Cooke, _Bulletin No. 5 of the Carnegie
53. 10. F.W. Taylor, _Shop Management_, para. 234, Am. Soc. M.E., Paper
54. 13. Henry R. Towne, Introduction to _Shop Management_. (Harper &
55. 14. F.W. Taylor, _Principles of Scientific Management_, p. 123.
56. 16. F.W. Taylor, _Principles of Scientific Management_, p. 137.
57. CHAPTER II
58. 1. The importance of the study of the individual, and the
59. 2. The difficulty of the study, and the necessity for great
60. 3. The necessity of considering any one individual trait as
61. 4. The importance of the individual as distinct from the
62. 1. The work is more specialized, hence requires more
63. 2. With standardized methods comes a knowledge to the
64. 3. Motion study, in its investigation of the worker, supplies
65. 1. By psychological and physiological study of workers under
66. 2. By scientific study of the worker made before he comes
67. 1. Determining the capabilities of the boy, that is, seeing
68. 2. Determining the possibilities of his securing work in the
69. 11. Rewards must be prompt and provided for all
70. 12. Appreciation must be shown.[11]
71. 2. It is prepared for the particular individual who is
72. 1. When, where, how, and how much is individuality
73. 2. What consideration is given to the relation of the mind to
74. 3. What is the relative emphasis on consideration of
75. 6. What is the effect toward causing or bringing about
76. 9. L.B. Blan, _A Special Study of the Incidence of Retardation_,
77. 11. F.B. Gilbreth, _Cost Reducing System_, Chap. III.
78. CHAPTER III
79. 4. What are the results to the worker?
80. 9. Good health.
81. 1. That the position will be best filled by a very high and
82. 2. That the man is forced to use every atom of all of his
83. 3. That in many cases the work assigned for him to do calls
84. 4. That psychology tells us that a man fitted to perform some
85. 11. poor investigation of workers' special capabilities.
86. 4. assigning competent workers to fitting work.
87. 8. quantity of additional pay that shall be given for doing it.
88. 1. coöperation with the management in obtaining the prescribed
89. 2. the exercise of their ingenuity in making improvements
90. 3. the fitting of themselves for higher pay and promotion.
91. 4. Disciplinarian
92. 8. Inspector
93. 2. a good observer, able to note minute variations of method,
94. 3. a good teacher.
95. 1. the particular place in the field of knowledge in which
96. 2. the change in the type of criticism expected from the
97. 3. the far greater emphasis placed on duties as a teacher.
98. 6. an offense against the system (disobeying orders), falling
99. 1. in doing the work itself, as will be shown at length in
100. 2. outside of the regular working hours, but in connection
101. 2. Decide whether the place can be best handled as one, or
102. 2. the long time job.
103. 5. Gillette and Dana, _Cost Keeping and Management Engineering_,
104. 7. F.W. Taylor, _Shop Management_, para. 221-231. Harper Ed.,
105. 12. For excellent example of special routing see: Charles Day,
106. 13. C. Babbage, _Economy of Manufacturers_. p. 172. "The constant
107. 14. F.W. Taylor, _On the Art of Cutting Metals_, Paper No. 1119,
108. 15. C.G. Barth, _Slide Rules for Machine Shops and Taylor System_.
109. 17. Adam Smith, _Wealth of Nations_, p. 2. "The greatest improvement
110. 18. H.K. Hathaway, _The Value of "Non-Producers" in Manufacturing
111. 19. Gillette and Dana, _Cost Keeping and Management Engineering_,
112. 20. Morris Llewellyn Cooke, _Bulletin No. 5, Carnegie Foundation for
113. 21. H.L. Gantt, _Work, Wages and Profits_, p. 120.
114. CHAPTER IV
115. 1. The student will discover, in the books on experimental
116. 2. He will receive priceless instruction in methods of
117. 4. What accurate measurement determines his
118. 3. time for overcoming delays.
119. 3. be willing to coöperate.
120. 2. that all get an ample compensation for what
121. 3. that under them general welfare is considered;
122. 2. the length of time required for a worker to do a
123. 3. the amount of rest and the time of rest required to
124. 3. how best to use them.
125. 4. furnish resulting timed elements to the synthesizer
126. 1. The maintained tension on a belt bears a close relation to
127. 2. The speed of a buzz planer determines its liability to
128. 2. what function it will be best to assign them to and to
129. 2. ability to assign men to the work which they should do, to
130. 3. ability to predict. On this ability to predict rests the
131. 2. The worker's judgment is appealed to. The method that he uses
132. 3. The worker's reasoning powers are developed. Continuous
133. 4. The worker fits his task, therefore there is no need of
134. 5. There is elimination of soldiering, both natural and
135. 1. The worker will become more and more willing to impart his
136. 2. G.M. Stratton, _Experimental Psychology and Its Bearing upon
137. 4. For apparatus for psychological experiment see Stratton, p. 38,
138. 6. Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Bulletin No. 5, _The Carnegie Foundation
139. 12. F.W. Taylor, _Shop Management_, pp. 398-391. Harper Ed., p. 179.
140. 13. President's Annual Address, Dec., 1906. Vol. 28, Transactions
141. 15. R.T. Dana, For Construction Service Co., _Handbook of Steam
142. 20. F.W. Taylor, _Shop Management_, para. 46. Harper Ed., p. 30.
143. CHAPTER V
144. 3. how many elements that it contains are likely to be
145. 4. how many new elements that it contains are likely to be
146. 5. the probable cost of the work after it has been studied--
147. 6. The loss, if any, from delaying the work until after it
148. 7. the availability of trained observers and measurers,
149. 8. the available money for carrying on the investigations.
150. 2. "labor imposed, especially a definite quantity or amount
151. 3. "a lesson to be learned; a portion of study imposed by a
152. 5. "burdensome employment; toil."
153. 1. The tools and surrounding conditions with which the work
154. 3. The time that the work shall take is scientifically
155. 5. The quality of the output is prescribed.
156. 1. law of no ratio between the foot-pounds of work done and
157. 3. law of classification of work according to percentage of
158. 6. laws that will predict the right speed, feed and cut on
159. 7. laws for predicting maximum quantity of output that a man
160. 8. laws for determining the selection of the men best suited
161. 1. Compare _Mechanical Analysis_. Taylor and Thompson, _Concrete,
162. 9. London, _Engineering_, Sept. 15, 1911.
163. CHAPTER VI
164. 1. to analyze the best practice known into the smallest
165. 4. to synthesize the necessary standard elements into
166. 1. that all management data would be available to
167. 2. that such data, being available also to all standardizers,
168. 4. that, from a study and comparison of the collected data a
169. 8. All of these various savings could be invested in more
170. 9. These more valuable results would again be available to
171. 1. for use as records of successful methods which may be
172. 2. for use by the instruction card clerk in explaining to
173. 3. What to Do.
174. 2. Qualities of Products.
175. 3. Clearing up. This is the only type used by Scientific
176. 1. Because they directly increase output by eliminating
177. 2. Because all surroundings suggest an easy achievement. Knowing
178. 1. It gives the worker immediate knowledge of the prescribed
179. 2. He does not have to worry as to the maximum variation that
180. 3. There is no fear of criticism or discharge for using his
181. 2. The idea of perfection is not involved in the standard of
182. 6. For desirability of standard signals see R.T. Dana, _Handbook of
183. 8. F.W. Taylor, _Shop Management,_ para. 285, Harper Ed.,
184. 14. Charles Babbage, _On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures_,
185. 16. F.A. Parkhurst, _Applied Methods of Scientific Management,
186. 17. H.L. Gantt, paper 928, A.S.M.E., para. 15.
187. CHAPTER VII
188. 3. Increase efficiency.
189. 1. The necessity of having more accurate records of the
190. 2. The necessity for so training the worker, before, as well
191. 2. the work as it is planned out by the managers, and handed
192. 2. to route the worker to the placed materials.
193. 4. Conscious record, conscious programme.
194. 10. Standardized record, standardized programme.
195. 1. One of a gang, unconscious
196. 2. Individual output,--standardized
197. 1. Gillette and Dana, _Cost Keeping and Management Engineering_,
198. 3. Gillette and Dana, _Cost Keeping and Management Engineering_,
199. 5. William James, _Psychology, Briefer Course_, p. 179.
200. CHAPTER VIII
201. 1. "to point out, direct, show;" "to tell, inform, instruct,
202. 3. "to impart knowledge or practical skill to;" "to guide in
203. 1. In that he is required to render reasons in writing for
204. 2. That, as soon as work is placed on the bonus basis, the
205. 2. Teaching of right habits of doing the right methods.
206. 2. Worker has no opportunity under the old industrial
207. 5. Right habits can be instilled.
208. 5. The Management. }
209. 1. Written, by means of
210. 3. Object-lessons:
211. 4. The instruction comes at the exact time that the learner
212. 3. from actual practice in teaching.
213. 10. develops the will.
214. 2. read to oneself aloud--eyes and ears appealed to, also
215. 4. read aloud to one and also read silently by one,--
216. 5. read aloud, and at the same time copied--eyes, ears,
217. 7. read to one while process is performed by oneself
218. 1. right motions first, that is to say,--the right number
219. 2. speed of motions second, that is to say, constantly
220. 3. constantly improving quality.[25]
221. 2. "The particular one of having images which are not
222. 4. mixed.
223. 3. that he may be sure of advancement with age and
224. 4. that he is sure of the "square deal."
225. 3. Competition with the standard record.
226. 1. During working hours, where the recognition of his
227. 2. Outside the work. He has, under Scientific Management, more
228. 1. A collection of knowledge relating in its entirety to the
229. 2. A definite procedure, that will enable the learner to
230. 12. Opportunities and demands for "thinking"
231. 16. Resultant happiness of worker.
232. 2. H.K. Hathaway, _Prerequisites to the Introduction of Scientific
233. 6. F.W. Taylor, _Shop Management_, para. 289, Harper Ed.,
234. 8. W.D. Ennis, _An Experiment in Motion Study, Industrial
235. 9. C.S. Myers, M.D., _An Introduction to Experimental Psychology_,
236. 12. F.B. Gilbreth, _Bricklaying System_, chap. I, _Training of
237. 19. Imbert, _Etudes experimentales de travail professionnel ouvrier,
238. 21. _Ibid._, p. 138. William James, Psychology, Advanced Course.
239. 24. Prof. Bain, quoted In William James' _Psychology, Briefer
240. 30. Attracting the attention is largely a matter of appealing to
241. 39. M.S. Read, _An Introductory Psychology_, pp. 212-213. William
242. 51. For example, see W.D. Scott's _Increasing Efficiency in
243. 52. R.A. Bray, _Boy Labor and Apprenticeship_, chap. II, especially
244. 53. Wilfred Lewis, _Proceedings of the Congress of Technology_,
245. 56. For value of personality see J.W. Jenks's, _Governmental Action
246. 58. Compare with the old darkey, who took her sons from a Northern
247. 61. Morris Llewellyn Cooke, _Bulletin No. 5_ of _The Carnegie
248. 62. A well known athlete started throwing a ball at his son in
249. 63. Meyer Bloomfield, _The Vocational Guidance of Youth_, Houghton
250. 64. A. Pimloche, _Pestalozzi and the Foundation of the Modern
251. 65. Friedrich Froebel, _Education of Man_, "To secure for this
252. CHAPTER IX
253. 1. fines, which are usually simply a cutting down of wages,
254. 3. assignment to less pleasant or less desirable work.
255. 8. Professional standing.
256. 9. coöperative work
257. 3. industrial coöperation. These are defined and discussed at
258. 5. F.W. Taylor, _Shop Management_, para. 310-311, Harper Ed.,
259. 6. See also C.U. Carpenter, _Profit Making in Shop and Factory
260. CHAPTER X
261. 3. physical development.
262. 2. Habits, under Scientific Management,
263. 3. Physical development
264. 1. As for habits we must consider
265. 2. General mental development is provided for by the experience
266. 1. Personal responsibility is developed by
267. 2. Responsibility for others is provided for by the
268. 3. Appreciation of standing is fostered by
269. 4. Self-control is developed by
270. 5. "Squareness." This squareness is exemplified first of all by
271. 1. Contentment is the outgrowth of the personal responsibility,
272. 2. The idea of brotherhood is fostered particularly through the
273. 3. The "will to do" is so fostered by Scientific Management that
274. 1. It will educate the worker to the point where workers will
275. 2. It will aid the cause of Industrial Peace.
276. 6. See remarkable work of Dr. A. Imbert, _Evaluation de la Capacite
277. 7. Clark and Wyatt, Macmillan, pp. 269-270.
278. introduction of new, 137.
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