F.W. Taylor is considered the father of scientific management. He introduced concepts like time and motion studies to improve efficiency. Some key principles of scientific management include replacing rule-of-thumb methods with data-driven tasks, labor-management cooperation, and using wage incentives like differential piece rates. Taylor's ideas focused on optimization but were criticized for neglecting human factors. Overall, scientific management aimed to improve productivity and reduce costs through principles of standardized work based on empirical analysis.

1. DR. MINAL BHANDARI.
PRATIBHA COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND
COMPUTER STUDIES, CHINCHWAD.
Development of Management
Thoughts
Contribution of F.W. Taylor in
development of Management
Thoughts

2. Content
Stages in development of management thought
Contribution of F.W. Taylor in development of
management thoughts
Scientific Management
Principles and features of SM
Techniques or mechanism of SM
Effects of SM in business
Criticism on SM

3. Stages in development of management thoughts
Pre-historical (Priests were planning trade routs and work into
artisans, soldiers, labors etc. Exa. The Roman empire)
Organized Society, Church, Military and State admini.
( Techniques like grouping, division were mentioned by political,
military and social org, not by business org.)
Industrial revolution era (Rapid growth of tech., scientific
management, impact on society, emergence of thinkers)
Consolidation and codification(Management based on statistics
through techniques like surveys, ratings, job analysis, production
control systems, BEA etc.)
Recent developments(Professionalization, skills of manager)

4. Contribution of
F.W. Taylor : An
American Inventor
 Birth: March 20, 1856 in Philadelphia
 Death : March 21, 1915 in Philadelphia
 Joined Midwell Steel Works in 1878 at lower level as a
worker
 He introduced Work Study
 Introduced Differential Piece Rate System of Wages
 Joined Simonds Rolling Machine Company
 He introduced Time and motion study to find out the
best movements and operations of workers

5.  Joined Bethlehem Steel Company in 1898
 Conducted pig iron handling, shoveling,
metal cutting experiments and found the
ways of eliminated waste and efficiency.
 He wrote articles in different magazines
and 5 books
 The famous one is ‘Principles and Methods
of Scientific Management.’
 Founder of SM Theory and known as
Father of SM

6. Definition of Scientific
Management
“Scientific management means
knowing exactly what you want
men to do and seeing that they do it
in the best and cheapest way.”

7. Principles and Features of Scientific
Management
 Replace rule of thumb with scientific methods
 Planning and scheduling work (Scientific task setting)
 Labor-management cooperation
 Division of responsibility
 Change in old methods of production for maximum output
 Job specialization (Concept of functional foremanship)
 Scientific selection, training and development of workers
 Standardization of materials, methods, tools, time etc.
 Wage incentives (Differential wage system)
 Mental revolution (On the part of management and workers,
development of scientific approach towards the work)

8. Techniques/Mechanism of SM
1. Scientific task setting
2. Planning
3. Standardization of equipment's
4. Scientific recruitment and training methods
5. Functional foremanship
6. Differential piece rate system of wages
7. Work study :Time, motion and fatigue study
Mental Revolution

9. Advantages of SM to organizations
 Reduces cost of production with best quality
 Benefits of division of labor
 Increased wages due to differential piece rate wage
system
 Proper methods of selection and training of labors
 Better working conditions
 Better utilization of resources
 Systematic structure of work
 Gains to owners in the form of increased productivity
 Gains to consumers as they can get quality product with
less price.

10. Criticism on Taylor’s SM
 Production centric mindset
 Human aspect is neglected
 Wrong assumption relating to motivation through
financial gains
 Applicable mostly to production industry where
performance can be calculated quantitatively
 In spite of this limitations, Taylor’s contribution
in management is outstanding and remarkable.