Scientific Management: Pros and Cons
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1865 - 1915) define Scientific Management or Taylorism with 4 principles as explained in appendix A.
His principles were than perfected by Henry Ford which known as Fordism, and it showed the world it could be applied and with great success. Although now it 's being diluted with different theories and principles in modern era, but the main core principles is still widely used around the world as it brings a certain degree of success and not as a trial an error method.
But we still see his principles applied today like he believes in job matching to the personality and capabilities of the worker like we see when we enlisted the Singapore Armed Force (SAF) for our National Service (NS), everyone had to sit through a quiz so to give SAF a rough gauge where best place the men as each individual counts as they have limited supply.
Another modern example of scientific management being implemented is Amazon in Rugeley just reported by O 'Conner in Financial Times on 8 February 2013, refer to appendix B. This help eliminates/ reduces "soldering" working to one full capacity or ability.
Even modern sports is unspared from his theory, we can see time and motion studies performed in today sports; examples like soccer, swimming, golf, tennis and track and field, but called sport science but the core principles is the same, to remove unwanted movements or gestures is to remove "soldering", instead of workers, its replace by muscles, instead of productivity, its replace by efficiency (in running or swimming). From this we can see the similarities.
Frederick Taylor 's Scientific Management brought about a wave of changes during his era where owners and managers could estimate and project their profitability with greater accuracy and help companies "slim down or trim down excess fats", also help streamline processes, increase in productivity and also decrease the possibility of the worker to "solder". All in all, it helps the companies create higher
His principles were than perfected by Henry Ford which known as Fordism, and it showed the world it could be applied and with great success. Although now it 's being diluted with different theories and principles in modern era, but the main core principles is still widely used around the world as it brings a certain degree of success and not as a trial an error method.
But we still see his principles applied today like he believes in job matching to the personality and capabilities of the worker like we see when we enlisted the Singapore Armed Force (SAF) for our National Service (NS), everyone had to sit through a quiz so to give SAF a rough gauge where best place the men as each individual counts as they have limited supply.
Another modern example of scientific management being implemented is Amazon in Rugeley just reported by O 'Conner in Financial Times on 8 February 2013, refer to appendix B. This help eliminates/ reduces "soldering" working to one full capacity or ability.
Even modern sports is unspared from his theory, we can see time and motion studies performed in today sports; examples like soccer, swimming, golf, tennis and track and field, but called sport science but the core principles is the same, to remove unwanted movements or gestures is to remove "soldering", instead of workers, its replace by muscles, instead of productivity, its replace by efficiency (in running or swimming). From this we can see the similarities.
Frederick Taylor 's Scientific Management brought about a wave of changes during his era where owners and managers could estimate and project their profitability with greater accuracy and help companies "slim down or trim down excess fats", also help streamline processes, increase in productivity and also decrease the possibility of the worker to "solder". All in all, it helps the companies create higher
References: * Weber, M, 1909, Max Weber and German Politics, Faber & Faber Ltd, 1944, pp. 125-131, London Appendix: