STANDARDIZATION APPLIES TO THE WORK OF ALL.—­It is important to note that standardizing is applied to the work of all.  This, if understood by all, will do away with all question of discrimination or the lack of a “square deal.”  It will make the worker feel ready to follow his standard exactly, just as he knows the manager is following his.  So, also, the worker should be made to realize that the very fact that there is a standardization means, under Scientific Management, that that applies to every man, and that there is no discrimination against him in any possible way.

STANDARDIZATION CONSERVES AND DEVELOPS INDIVIDUALITY.—­ Standardization conserves individual capacity by doing away with the wasteful process of trial and error of the individual workman.  It develops individuality by allowing the worker to concentrate his initiative upon work that has not before been done, and by providing incentive and reward for inventions.

WASTE ELIMINATED IS ELIMINATED PERMANENTLY.—­Scientific Management not only eliminates waste, but provides that waste shall be eliminated for all time in the future.

The standard once written down, there can be no slipping back into the old methods based upon opinions of the facts.

STANDARDIZATION UNDER SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT RESEMBLES STANDARDIZATION OF SPELLING.—­The need for standardization has already been emphasized, but might further be illustrated by the discussions, pro and con, of the question of simplified spelling.  Before the days of dictionaries, our spelling was not standardized—­ it was the privilege of any good writer to spell much as he desired; but the creation of written standards of spelling, that is to say the making of dictionaries, fixed the forms of spelling at that time, that is, created standards.  The Simplified Spelling Board is now endeavoring to make some new standards, their action being based upon sufficient reasons for making a change, and also for not changing the spelling of any word until it is determined that the suggested spelling is more advisable than the old spelling.

Just so, under Scientific Management, the best known standards are used continuously until better have been discovered.  The planning department, consisting of the best men available, whose special duty it is to create new standards, acts as does the Simplified Spelling Board, as a court of appeals for new standards, which must pass this court before they can hope to succeed the old, and which must, if they are to be accepted, possess many elements of the old and be changed only in such a way that the users can, without difficulty, shift to the new use.