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F. W. Taylor’s Scientific Management Theory in Modern Day Workplace
Posted on October 23, 2010 by lupa4eve
Management can have the most remarkable effects on organization; that is why management has become an essential part of organization. According to Griffin (2001) Management may be defined as a set of activities (including planning, and decision making, organizing, leading and controlling) with the aim of achieving organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner. Management can also be defined as the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims (Koontz and Weihrich 1990).
From the time human beings began forming social organizations to accomplish aims and objectives they could not accomplish as individuals, managing has been essential to ensure the coordination of individual efforts. As society continuously relied on group effort, and as many organized groups have become large, the task of managers has been increasing in importance and complexity. Henceforth, management theory has become crucial in the way managers manage complex organizations. The first management theory is what is popularly referred to as Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management (Stoner, Edward, Gilbert, 2003).
The central thesis of this paper is to discuss the relevance of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Scientific Management Theory in the modern workplace. Frederick Taylor started the era of modern management. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he was decrying the “awkward, inefficient, or ill-directed movements of men” as national loss.
Taylor consistently sought to overthrow management “by rule of thumb” and replace it with actual timed observations leading to “the one best” practice. He also advocated the systematic training of workers in “the one
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F. W. Taylor’s Scientific Management Theory in Modern Day Workplace
Posted on October 23, 2010 by lupa4eve
Management can have the most remarkable effects on organization; that is why management has become an essential part of organization. According to Griffin (2001) Management may be defined as a set of activities (including planning, and decision making, organizing, leading and controlling) with the aim of achieving organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner. Management can also be defined as the process of designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims (Koontz and Weihrich 1990).
From the time human beings began forming social organizations to accomplish aims and objectives they could not accomplish as individuals, managing has been essential to ensure the coordination of individual efforts. As society continuously relied on group effort, and as many organized groups have become large, the task of managers has been increasing in importance and complexity. Henceforth, management theory has become crucial in the way managers manage complex organizations. The first management theory is what is popularly referred to as Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management (Stoner, Edward, Gilbert, 2003).
The central thesis of this paper is to discuss the relevance of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Scientific Management Theory in the modern workplace. Frederick Taylor started the era of modern management. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he was decrying the “awkward, inefficient, or ill-directed movements of men” as national loss.
Taylor consistently sought to overthrow management “by rule of thumb” and replace it with actual timed observations leading to “the one best” practice. He also advocated the systematic training of workers in “the one