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Harrington Emerson
9 quotes
“The schedule is a moral contract or agreement with the men as to a particular machine operation, rate of wages and time. Any change in men [etc.] calls for a new schedule.”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harrington Emerson, as cited in: Horace Bookwalter Drury (1918) Scientific Management: A History and Criticism. p. 142
“The individual effort method of increasing the reward of the wage-earner includes all that is best in other methods, and attempts to exclude all that is objectionable. Its good points are summed up as follows:”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Staff standards are not theological abstractions, but scientific approximations, and are evolved for the use of the line, the sole justification of the standards being that they will make line work more efficient. Staff standards being for the benefit of the line and often entrusted to line officials, must be put in the form of permanent instructions so that all may understand what is being aimed at, and deviations by the line be noted and reprimanded.”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 70; Cited in: Morgen Witzel (2003) Fifty Key Figures in Management. p. 79
“We have not put our trust in Kings; let us not put it in natural resources, but grasp the truth that exhaustless wealth lies in the latent and as yet undeveloped capacities of individuals, of corporations, of States.”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 164; ; Cited in: Morgen Witzel (2003) Fifty Key Figures in Management. p. 80
“Twelve Principles of Efficiency”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is psychology, not soil or climate, that enables a man to raise five times as many potatoes per acre as the average in his own state.”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 107 ; cited in: Hugo Münsterberg. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, 1913, p. 52
“The type for the great newspaper is set up by linotype operators. Apprenticeship is rigorously limited. Some operators can never get beyond the 2500-em class, others with no more personal effort can set 5000 ems. Do the employers test out applicants for apprenticeship so as to be sure to secure boys who will develop into the 5000-em class? They do not: they select applicants for any near reason except the fundamental important one of innate fitness.”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In selecting human assistants such superficialities as education, as physical strength, even antecedent morality, are not as important as the inner attitudes, proclivities, character, which after all determine the man or woman.”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The competent specialist who has supplemented natural gifts and good judgment by analysis and synthesis can perceive attitudes and proclivities even in the very young, much more readily in those semi-matured, and can with almost infallible certainty point out, not only what work can be undertaken with fair hope of success, but also what slight modification or addition and diminution will more than double the personal power.”
Harrington Emerson (1853–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source