SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT Frederick Winslow Taylor

BY K SANTOSH KUMAR

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Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency .He was one of the first management consultants . Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in between (1890s-1920s). Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his 1911 book The Principles of Scientific Management. 

Management of a business, industry or economy according to the principles of efficiency derived from experiments in the methods of work and production.

MAIN OBJECTIVE: Improving economic efficiency , especially concentrated on labor productivity. It was one of the earliest methods to apply science to the engineering of process and to management.

Under Scientific management the initiative of the workmen( that is their hard work , their good will , their ingenuity) is obtained with absolute uniformity and in addition to the improvement on the part of the men, the managers has new burdens new duties and responsibilities never dreamed of in the past.

‘Rule of Thumb’ means the application of traditional methods or the methods decided by the manager based on his past experience. All these methods are often untested and unscientific; they do not guarantee a specific result or outcome. In an organization, the rule of thumb can be seen as ‘the dictatorship of the manager’ which should be avoided.In this principle, Taylor states that there must be thinking before doing i.e. ‘Trail and Error Method’ or ‘Hit and Miss Method’ should be avoided, instead scientific and researched methods should be adopted for performing any activity. Taylor insists on the use of scientific techniques, which are based on cause and effect relationship so that the objectives can be achieved in a better way with the available resources, skills and budget. Thus, the emphasis is on scientific decision making based on cause and effect and the scientific measurements of the methods.

First. They develop a science for each element of a man’s work, which replaces the old rule of-thumb method.

Second. They scientifically select and then train, teach, and develop the workman, whereas in the past he chose his own work and trained himself as best he could.

Third. They heartily cooperate with the men so as to insure all of the work being done in accordance with the principles of the science which has been developed.

Fourth. There is an almost equal division of the work and the responsibility between the management and the workmen. The management take over all work for which they are better fitted than the workmen, while in the past almost all of the work and the greater part of the responsibility were thrown upon the men.

Positive impacts of this principles:1.Standardized results;2 Guarantee a specific result or outcome;3.Objectives can be achieved in a better way;4.Better utilization of available resources, skills and budget

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