Coquettish Rebirth

Chapter [-] Scientific Management Methods——

Chapter [-] Scientific Management Methods

Sitting here on the way to the factory, Su Ping was asking her son what she said: "How did you come up with the idea of ​​paying more money to make workers serious?" She was really curious at this time, although she He has long since discovered that his son is a genius, but the idea he proposed just now, no matter how he thinks about it, should have been conceived by an old fritter who has been in society for many years. Why is Jia Hongjian, a 15-year-old kid Can you figure it out?And it was like this many times before, Jia Hongjian seemed to understand society and human nature better than her, a middle-aged woman in her 30s.

"My idea?" Jia Hongjian was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "That idea was actually not my idea, it was an American Frederick Winslow Taylor in the early 20th century, or it could be translated as Taylor. This man was from the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, a classical management scientist, and at the same time the father of modern scientific management in the Western world."

Jia Hongjian paused here, he likes this kind of link of popular science to others, "He created a management method called Taylor system in the early 20th century, one of which is to use money to make workers more productive. High enthusiasm. There is another exaggerated example about this. At that time, Taylor was a manager in a steel company. At that time, he researched and found that no one in the pig iron handling team in the company could load and unload 12.5 tons per day. Taylor wanted to try it out. He took people to do research, studied the working hours and movements of workers, divided a loading and unloading work into dozens of small projects, and then demonstrated them one by one. Even the load on workers , Time-consuming, and moving movements are all precisely designed. After designing a scientific process that is almost nerdy, he calculated that each pig iron porter can not hurt the body every day, and can maintain relatively sufficient energy after work Under the condition of returning home and living a family life with the family, the reasonable work quota should be 47 tons to 48 tons..."

"47 tons to 48 tons?" Su Ping was shocked at this moment!It was said that each worker is only 12.5 tons per day, but his nerd did a random calculation and said that each worker can carry nearly 50 tons of pig iron per day?Also said that it can guarantee that these people will not hurt their bodies?Do you even have the energy to go home and live a family life with your family?This is bullshit!

At this time, it was not only Su Ping, but even Jia Gang who was driving, listened to Jia Hongjian's explanation. "At that time, everyone in the factory, from the pig iron porter to the boss of the company, thought Taylor was crazy! But Taylor obviously didn't think so. He found a German named Schmidt who had just entered the factory. American workers, let this Schmidt work according to his calculations. Then this Schmidt worked hard under Taylor's command with a stopwatch...Mom, guess how many tons he moved?"

At this moment, Su Ping hated her son's trickery, "20 tons?" She still guessed it cooperatively. "Wrong, under Taylor's guidance, Schmidt moved and unloaded 47.5 tons of pig iron in one day, and as a benchmark, his daily salary rose from $1.15 to $1.85!"

At this time, Su Ping and Jia Gang were completely shocked!They don't know how much pig iron handling can be loaded and unloaded in a day, but the data calculated by this nerd can really make people do it in a day?This is too scary?

Looking at the unbelievable expressions of his parents, Jia Hongjian simply explained in detail: "Actually, the reason behind this was also mentioned by Adam Smith in "The Wealth of Nations". In fact, Uncle Carl mentioned it in "Capital" It is also mentioned in the article that the division of labor leads to the increase of labor productivity. In "Capital", it is only briefly mentioned that because the process is divided, let each worker simply do a process, so that practice makes perfect. But why divide the process The real reason that can increase the productivity of labor was analyzed by Adam Smith."

Jia Hongjian paused here for a while, as if recalling the relevant description in "The Wealth of Nations", "In "The Wealth of Nations", Adam Smith gave an example. That is, when a farmer is farming in the countryside, he often One person has to do many kinds of work, such as removing weeds, catching bugs, and watering. When doing each of these tasks, farmers are very attentive because they work for themselves. But in every When switching between jobs, farmers will subconsciously take a break. Such a small break will interrupt the rhythm of work and let the whole person relax slowly. Although the single time wasted is not long , but it is amazing to add up every day. From this phenomenon, Adam Smith analyzed a rule, that is, if a person is only allowed to do one process, then he will not subconsciously want to be lazy or take a rest ..."

Hearing this, Su Ping came to her senses, "You mean, it was also because of this reason in Taylor's case? Because workers often have to load, unload and carry goods, and there will be a lot of time between each process." Subconsciously lazy to rest? And what Taro did was try to use a stopwatch to get rid of this kind of lazy time?"

"It's absolutely correct!" Jia Hongjian said with a smile, "but Mr. Taylor, the father of scientific management, also understands a truth, that is, you can't take away the time that workers spend subconsciously slacking off every day, and don't give it to workers. Any benefit, otherwise it would be several times as much work in the eyes of the workers, but there is no benefit at all!"

Yes, of course Su Ping understands this situation!When she heard it just now, she was shocked when she heard that the original workload of more than ten tons turned into nearly 50 tons, not to mention the workers who went to carry it in person! "Therefore, the Thai government simply raised wages for workers and used money to stimulate the enthusiasm of workers, making them feel that they are rewarded for paying more and can make their families live better, so the workers are more willing. pay?"

"That's right! This is a very important point of the Taylor system." Jia Hongjian said with a smile, "It's the same in our company. To a certain extent, we can't ask them to do this in empty teeth, and we can't declare that if they don't do it, we will fine them. In their view, we bosses are unscrupulous and just looking for trouble. So, since they If being serious can bring us more profits, why don’t we give them some points as a bonus to stimulate them to take the initiative to do what we want?”

In Jia Hongjian's previous life, he had read a lot of western management books for several years in order to improve himself according to his sister's requirements. He was very familiar with this so-called scientific management method. "What we are doing now is just the first step, but because this factory is not our own. And if the business gets bigger and bigger in the future, such a small factory may not be able to meet our requirements. I'm going to open a factory in another place, so I don't even want to further improve the labor level..."

Jia Gang and his wife listened to their son's words quietly, thinking about something silently.The two of them knew that if the family was not good at present, it could be said that it was all held together by this little boy, Jia Hongjian.It seems that this 15-year-old boy came up with all the ideas from his fortune till now.Although the two adults seem to be incompetent in comparison, this is their happiness anyway.However, this does not mean that the two of them have no progressive ideas.

These two people are very traditional, and they both want to retain the most basic self-esteem in front of their children, at least they don't want to act like they don't understand anything in front of their sons.The two of them felt that they should read more books and learn more things, and not always hold back their son. Otherwise, if the son needs help in making ideas in the future, neither of them can do anything...

Soon, the car of the three members of the Jia family arrived at the factory.After entering the factory office, Jia Gang first called the workshop director and team leaders over according to Jia Hongjian's request. "I'm meeting with you today. I mainly want to ask you something." Jia Gang then began to ask each team leader about their previous monthly production quota and cost.

When each team leader reported the data according to the truth without knowing it, Jia Gang began to ask according to the method his son secretly taught him before: "Then everyone thinks that after our Huaxia Hi-Tech contracted this factory, each team will How many things do you have to produce per month, and how much does it cost per month?"

As soon as this question was asked, the team leaders were all embarrassed.It is impossible for them to report in a more efficient direction according to Jia Gang's intention, so they will be a lot tired, but in front of the boss, they have to report more.After looking at each other for a while, the squad leaders still didn't open their mouths, and finally Jia Gang simply started to order.After being named, these team leaders had no choice but to optimize the previous average data by about 10.

"That's it?" Jia Gang asked deliberately when he saw his son's color.Such a problem made the team leaders take the initiative to optimize 5. "If you add a bonus of 20, how much can you optimize at most?"

"Mr. Jia, the maximum is 20, there is no way to do more!" Although there is incentives for bonuses, these team leaders dare not make random promises, and they are afraid that they will not be able to complete the report if they are too many.

"That's okay, we will optimize according to the 20 data you said in the future! We do so much every month, even if there are dealers to buy, we will not do it. If they want to, let them come to the factory to do it themselves." Really, do our workers have to rest, right?" Jia Gang didn't need to look at his son's face at this time, so he used these words to soothe the hearts of the team leaders...

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