Conclusions to be reached.—These conclusions will include the following:—
1. “Scientific
Management” is a science.
2. It alone, of the Three
Types of Management, is a science.
3. Contrary to a widespread
belief that Scientific Management
kills individuality,
it is built on the basic principle of
recognition
of the individual, not only as an economic
unit but
also as a personality, with all the
idiosyncrasies
that distinguish a person.
4. Scientific Management
fosters individuality by
functionalizing
work.
5. Measurement, in Scientific
Management, is of ultimate
units of
subdivision.
6. These measured ultimate
units are combined into methods of
least waste.
7. Standardization under
Scientific Management applies to all
elements.
8. The accurate records
of Scientific Management make
accurate
programmes possible of fulfillment.
9. Through the teaching
of Scientific Management the
management
is unified and made self-perpetuating.
10. The method of teaching
of Scientific Management is a
distinct
and valuable contribution to Education.
11. Incentives under Scientific
Management not only stimulate
but benefit
the worker.
12. It is for the ultimate
as well as immediate welfare of
the worker
to work under Scientific Management.
13. Scientific Management is
applicable to all fields of
activity,
and to mental as well as physical work.
14. Scientific Management is
applicable to self-management as
well as
to managing others.
15. It teaches men to cooeperate
with the management as well
as to manage.
16. It is a device capable
of use by all.
17. The psychological element
of Scientific Management is the
most important
element.
18. Because Scientific Management
is psychologically right it
is the ultimate
form of management.
19. This psychological study
of Scientific Management
emphasizes
especially the teaching features.
20. Scientific Management simultaneously
a. increases
output and wages and lowers costs.
b. eliminates
waste.
c. turns
unskilled labor into skilled.
d. provides
a system of self-perpetuating welfare.
e. reduces
the cost of living.
f. bridges
the gap between the college trained and
the
apprenticeship trained worker.
g. forces
capital and labor to cooeperate and to
promote
industrial peace.