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It can readily be seen that such a plan of management as this will bring out co-operation as would no other plan; and it should be stated here emphatically that there is nothing that can permanently bring about results from scientific management, and the economies that it is possible to effect by it, unless the organization is supported by the hearty co-operation of the men. Without this there is no scientific management.
Moreover, since the conditions which bring about the cooperation are measured and standardized, the result is stable. Co-operation without standardization is a most unstable thing, likely to disappear at any moment with a change of the individuals supposed to co-operate.
- —Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr., Units, Methods, and Devices of Measurement Under Scientific Management, 1913