Taylorism is largely based on the scientific method. One of the core principles of Taylorism stated that managers should take up the "duty to set out deliberately to train the workmen in their employ to be able to do a better and still better class of work than ever before" (Taylor, 208). Taylor stated that managers should play a very active role in monitoring their employees and experimenting with different work styles to maximize that worker's efficiency. This iterative process of selecting and training workers is very similar to the scientific method. At a basic level, the scientific method describes the process of testing a hypothesis with an experiment. In this case, the experiment would be the worker's work style, and the hypothesis would be that the worker is more efficient on the job. Taylorism would then incentivize the workers to achieve the hypothesis of higher efficiency by offering them "better treatment, more kindly treatment, more consideration for their wishes, and an opportunity for them to express their wants freely" (Taylor, 208). These factors would all be variables in Taylorism's "scientific method." By controlling these variables, such as increased working conditions, the manager may alter the worker's efficiency as they see fit to satisfy their hypothesis. From these observations, Taylorism's scientific management process shares many similar components to the scientific method, such as experiments and variables to confirm or deny a hypothesis.