ABSTRACT
The basis of good management lies in selecting the most suitable policy, and steadfastly following it. This applies as much to daily decisions made by foremen and based on analyses of machine delays, as to major policy decisions made by the company directors. Scientific management in all its aspects covers works costing, time and motion study, production planning, material control, market research, and almost every other management activity. The manner in which the ways of compensating operators on time study piece rates enables excess labour costs to be analysed and thrown up is clear from the preceding remarks. Therefore, any change in production conditions must be reported to the time study department at once, when the rates are reconsidered. The control returns should cover the responsibility of the supervisor for which they are intended. The labour summary or control return is prepared either from the weekly wages book or from the pay roll, time sheets or job dockets.
