The writer feels that management is also destined to become more of an art, and that many of the, elements which are now believed to be outside the f… - Frederick Winslow Taylor

These new duties are grouped under four heads:

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

What I want to try to prove to you and make clear to you is that the principles of scientific management when properly applied, and when a sufficient amount of time has been given to make them really effective, must in all cases produce far large and better results, both for the employer and the employees, than can possibly be obtained under even this very rare type of management which I have been outlining, namely, the management of ‘initiative and incentive’, in which those on the management’s side deliberately give a very large incentive to their workmen, and in return the workmen respond by working to the very best of their ability at all times in the interest of their employers. I want to show you that scientific management is even far better than this rare type of management.