ABSTRACT
This chapter gives illustrations of several companies which are earning large dividends and at the same time paying from 30 per cent to 100 per cent higher wages to their men than are paid to similar men immediately around them, and with whose employers they are in competition. The defective systems of management which are in common use, makes it necessary for each workman to soldier, or work slowly, in order that he may protect his own best interests. The chapter attempts to show the enormous gains which would result from the substitution by our workmen of scientific for rule-of-thumb methods. It also shows that the underlying philosophy of all of the old systems of management in common use makes it imperative that each workman shall be left with the final responsibility for doing his job practically as he thinks best, with comparatively little help and advice from the management.
