Scientific Management and Railroads: Being Part of a Brief Submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission (Hive Management History Series, No. 82)

Louis D. Brandeis

ISBN 10: 0879601019 / ISBN 13: 9780879601010

Published by Hive Pub Co

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Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Paperback. Covers have light shelf rubbing with soiling and smudging as well as bumping and creasing. Binding is sound. Interior covers are age-toned and smudged. Page edges have light age-toning and smudging. Interior pages are age-toned and soiled. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scientific Management and Railroads: Being Part of a Brief Submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission (Hive Management History Series, No. 82)
• Publisher: Hive Pub Co
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879601019
• ISBN 13: 9780879601010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 0.9 pounds

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Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1912. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 13. What the Employer Gaim from Scientific Management The employer gains not only reduced labor cost due to greater productivity of the workingman, but also those great incidental benefits which flow from improved service, as from greater celerity and greater punctuality in completing work. The employer gains much from the lessened need of plant and equipment which follows its fuller and uninterrupted use. He saves in interest and taxes, and in depreciation charges. He saves in reduced stock of materials, raw and in process. He saves in a lessened strain upon his credit. (a) When applied to construction of buildings, the labor cost was reduced about one-half. (Gilbreth: Record, p. 3424.) (6) Even when applied in a business which, under the old method, had been most progressively managed for years, and thoroughly systematized, the introduction of scientific management produced the following remarkable results in different processes and operations, which are designated by letters. Saved In direct Saved In overhead charges, labor. (Labor and general shop expenses.) A 12 per cent 26 per cent B 74 78 C 16 30 D 2 18 E 31 43 F 35 45 G 36 46 H 28 17 I 16 4 J 28 11 K 37 28 L 37 10 (increase) M 34 24 N 63 81 (Towne, Record, pp. 3319-3320.) (c) Gantt (Record, pp. 138-139). "The fact that under this system everybody, high and low, is forced by his co-workers to do his duty (for some one else always suffers when he fails) acts as a strong moral tonic to the community, and many whose ideas of truth and honesty are vague find habits of truth and honesty forced upon them. This is the case with those in high authority, as well as those in humble positions, and the man highest in authority finds that he also must conform to laws, if he wishes the proper co-operation of t...