vidual recognition. When the worker was considered
merely as one of a gang, it was very easy for him to
shift responsibilities upon others. When he knows that
he is regarded by the management, and by his mates, as
an individual, that what he does will show up in an
individual record, and will receive individual reward
or punishment, necessarily personal responsibility is
developed.
Moreover, this individual recognition is brought to his mind by
his being expected to fill out his own instruction card. In this
way, his personal responsibility is specifically brought home
to him.
(b) The appreciation which comes under Scientific
Management. This appreciation takes the form of reward
and promotion, and of the regard of his fellow-workers;
therefore, being a growing thing, as it is under
Scientific Management, it insures that his personal
responsibility, shall also be a growing thing, and
become greater the longer he works under Scientific
Management.
2. Responsibility for others is provided for by the
inter-relation of all functions. It is not necessary that all
workers under Scientific Management should understand all about it.
However, many do understand, and the more that they do understand,
the more they realize that everybody working under Scientific
Management is more or less dependent upon everybody else. Every
worker must feel this, more or less, when he realizes that there are
eight functional bosses over him, who are closely related to him, on
whom he is dependent, and who are more or less dependent upon him.
The very fact that the planning is separated from the performing,
means that more men are directly interested in any one piece of
work; in fact, that every individual piece of work that is done is
in some way a bond between a great number of men, some of whom are
planning and some of whom are performing it. This responsibility for
others is made even more close in the dependent bonuses which are a
part of Scientific Management, a man's pay being dependent upon the
work of those who are working under him. Certainly, nothing could
bring the fact more closely to the attention of each and every
worker under this system, than associating it with the pay envelope.
3. Appreciation of standing is fostered by
(a) individual records. Through the
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