Fredrick Taylor's Management Theory
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
FREDRICK TAYLOR’S PRINCPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
BACHELORS OF BUSINESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY
Group Members
078376-Thomas Mulumbi
078561-Mansi Patel
078288-Joseph Wachira
078561-Joyce
077099-Jacquiline Gitau
077681-Joseph Kiragu
078410-Antony Mwathi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background
Scientific management
The four scientific management principles
Management Theory
Taylorism Influence on other countries
USA
FRANCE
SWITZERLAND
USSR
EAST GERMANY
ASME
Critiques on Taylorism
Bibliography
BACKGROUND
Fredrick Taylor was born in the year 1856 In a Quaker family, Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taylor came to be regarded as one of the efficiency movement, with his ideas he broadly influencing the progressive era.
After Taylor completed his learning he went for an apprenticeship for four years with a group of New England machine-tool manufactures at Philadelphia’s centennial exposition. It was in 1878 that Taylor began working as a machine-shop laborer at
Midvale Steel Works.
During his work time at Midvale, Taylor began to recognize the concept of soldiering amongst the company. A concept of which one intentionally restricts labor productivity; or to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Taylor noticed that the high cost labor for the company was as a result of workers not working themselves or their machines as much as they were expected to.
The soldering concept came about the 19th century was due to the economic growth of capitalism in America. Companies were hiring workmen at a very high rate but their wasn’t an implemented system of how to manage effectively the incoming workforce.
The workforce lacked a motive or incentive to work for, thus the company’s productivity declining. SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
It was in 1881 when Taylor was the foreman at Midvale that he introduced time study at the company. He expected a lot more output from the workers, and
FREDRICK TAYLOR’S PRINCPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
BACHELORS OF BUSINESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY
Group Members
078376-Thomas Mulumbi
078561-Mansi Patel
078288-Joseph Wachira
078561-Joyce
077099-Jacquiline Gitau
077681-Joseph Kiragu
078410-Antony Mwathi
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Background
Scientific management
The four scientific management principles
Management Theory
Taylorism Influence on other countries
USA
FRANCE
SWITZERLAND
USSR
EAST GERMANY
ASME
Critiques on Taylorism
Bibliography
BACKGROUND
Fredrick Taylor was born in the year 1856 In a Quaker family, Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taylor came to be regarded as one of the efficiency movement, with his ideas he broadly influencing the progressive era.
After Taylor completed his learning he went for an apprenticeship for four years with a group of New England machine-tool manufactures at Philadelphia’s centennial exposition. It was in 1878 that Taylor began working as a machine-shop laborer at
Midvale Steel Works.
During his work time at Midvale, Taylor began to recognize the concept of soldiering amongst the company. A concept of which one intentionally restricts labor productivity; or to work at the slowest rate that goes unpunished. Taylor noticed that the high cost labor for the company was as a result of workers not working themselves or their machines as much as they were expected to.
The soldering concept came about the 19th century was due to the economic growth of capitalism in America. Companies were hiring workmen at a very high rate but their wasn’t an implemented system of how to manage effectively the incoming workforce.
The workforce lacked a motive or incentive to work for, thus the company’s productivity declining. SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
It was in 1881 when Taylor was the foreman at Midvale that he introduced time study at the company. He expected a lot more output from the workers, and
Bibliography: The principles at a viewpoint During Taylor’s regime, right after the American civil war (1861-1965), the