Synthesized answer
Taylor proposes that national efficiency in the future will be achieved through scientific management [1, 3]. This approach emphasizes systematic cooperation to train competent individuals rather than seeking pre-trained individuals [2]. The core idea is that system must be prioritized over the individual in the future, though great men are still needed and good systems aim to develop them [2, 3].
Scientific management will bring about national efficiency by systematically cooperating to train and develop competent individuals [2]. It aims for efficiency in both employers and employees, leading to an equitable division of profits [1]. This will involve an impartial scientific investigation of all problem elements [1]. The passages suggest that this will lead to greatly increased productivity, which in turn will increase the availability of necessities and luxuries for the whole country, and potentially shorten working hours and increase opportunities for education and recreation [4, 5].
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From the book
and who merely cracks his whip over the heads of his workmen and attempts to drive them into harder work for low pay. No more will it tolerate tyranny on the part of labor which demands one increase after another in pay and shorter hours while at the same time it becomes less instead of more efficient. And the means which the writer firmly believes will be adopted to bring about, first, efficiency both in employer and employs and then an equitable division of the profits of their joint efforts will be scientific management, which has for its sole aim the attainment of justice for all…
supply. What we are all looking for, however, is the readymade, competent man; the man whom some one else has trained. It is only when we fully realize that our duty, as well as our opportunity, lies in systematically cooperating to train and to make this competent man, instead of in hunting for a man whom some one else has trained, that we shall be on the road to national efficiency. In the past the prevailing idea has been well expressed in the saying that "Captains of industry are born, not made"; and the theory has been that if one could get the right man, methods could be safely…
s been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before. This paper has been written: First. To point out, through a series of simple illustrations, the great loss which the whole country is suffering through inefficiency in almost all of our daily acts. Second. To try to convince the reader that the remedy for…
e double the productivity of the average man engaged in industrial work. Think of what this means to the whole country. Think of the increase, both in the necessities and luxuries of life, which becomes available for the whole country, of the possibility of shortening the hours of labor when this is desirable, and of the increased opportunities for education, culture, and recreation which this implies. But while the whole world would profit by this increase in production, the manufacturer and the workman will be far more interested in the especial local gain that comes to them and to…
ity has come, it is to the greater productivity of each individual that the whole country owes its greater prosperity. Those who are afraid that a large increase in the productivity of each workman will throw other men out of work, should realize that the one element more than any other which differentiates civilized from uncivilized countries--prosperous from poverty--stricken peoples--is that the average man in the one is five or six times as productive as the other. It is also a fact that the chief cause for the large percentage of the unemployed in England (perhaps the most virile…