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But the wages of labour in a great town and its neighbourhood are frequently a fourth or a fifth part, twenty or five-and-twenty per cent, higher than at a few miles distance.

Till this stipulation was made, mutual emulation and the desire of greater gain frequently prompted them to over-work themselves, and to hurt their health by excessive labour.

This work was compiled by the order of the court for the use of a commission employed for some years past in considering the proper means for reforming the finances of France.

This enhancement of the money price of corn, however, it has been thought, by rendering that commodity more profitable to the farmer, must necessarily encourage its production.

Knight, therefore, is so far from being responsible for a single opinion in the present volume, that he saw it only, for a short time, a few days previous to its publication.

If, therefore, it were necessary to enlarge this factory, it is clear that twelve or eighteen presses would be worked with more economy than any number not a multiple of six.

"Functional management" consists in so dividing the work of management that each man from the assistant superintendent down shall have as few functions as possible to perform.

An elaborate time table should be made out showing daily the time when and place where each report is due, which is necessary to carry on the, work and to maintain the system.

All of this requires the kindly cooperation of the management, and involves a much more elaborate organization and system than the old-fashioned herding of men in large gangs.

Study the exact series of elementary operations or motions which each of these men uses in doing the work which is being investigated, as well as the implements each man uses.

After many a weary day's study the investigator awakes from a dream of greatness to find that he has only worked out a new proof for a problem that Taylor has already solved.

Contentment makes for loyalty to the management, for cooperating for maintainment of the best conditions, and for the protection and preservation of the property of the employer.

The organization and principles were adopted and applied by the managers, and the results are shown by an extract from a letter, written by the local official ten months later.

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service.

By this time we had gotten all of the best weavers on task work, and henceforth we had to train the poorer ones, which partially accounts for the sudden increase of red marks.

Another criticism may be that this applies to what might be called direct labor, and that no account is taken of the indirect labor, such as transportation, clerical work, etc.

When based on facts, tasks, or piece rates, under any reasonable system of management are permanent; when based on guess, or records, nobody ever expects they will be permanent.

To the uninitiated, golf seems a very inane sort of game, but its devotees work at it with tremendous energy just for the satisfaction of reducing their score a few strokes.

It was accomplished by the splendid energy and tremendous resources of the American people, but nobody pretends that we showed any high degree of efficiency in doing the work.

Moreover, having had no experience in operating grand scale industry and business, it is more than likely that their attempt to do so will result disastrously to the community.

Destinés à devenir des chefs, les élèves de ces écoles doivent avoir des notions assez étendues sur l’art de prévoir, d’organiser, de commander, de coordonner et de contrôler.

Ce fait a une telle importance au double point de vue de l’organisation et du gouvernement des affaires que je n’ai pas craint de multiplier les moyens de le faire connaître.

Es ist klar, daß die bürokratische Organisation eines sozialen, insbesondere eines politischen, Gebildes ihrerseits weitgehende wirtschaftliche Folgen haben kann und regelmäßig hat.

Aber praktisch setzten sie vermöge der festen Organisation ihres Betriebs die Ueberlegenheit der Geltung des babylonischen gegenüber dem jerusalemitischen Talmud durch.

But perhaps the most suggestive treatment of wholes, in the fields we are looking at, has come from those who have been working at the integrative action of the nervous system.

We integrate our experience, and then the richer human being that we are goes into the new experience; again we give ourself and always by the giving rise above the old self.

The different systems of payment, also, would seem to afford special possibilities and inducements for manipulating the conditions of work and the actual rates of the workers.

Emerson subscribes to the general statement that time and motion study is necessary to secure justice to the workers and improvement in the wages and conditions of employment.

Perhaps even more significant than the imperial march of Labour in our day is the bugle-call which has wakened the camp of Management to the prodigious activity of an advance.

The main general duty of the manager is to carry out the work of his department, with what staff he requires, as seems to him best, subject to the veto of the general manager.

If it is so financed all the profits go to the community, and if service is more important than profits, it is always possible to get a maximum service by eliminating profits.

It was accomplished by the splendid energy and tremendous resources of the American people, but nobody pretends that we showed any high degree of efficiency in doing the work.