2. TOPIC : MANAGEMENT THEORY BY
F.W.TAYLOR
CONTENTS:
1-TAYLOR’S CONTRIBUTION TO MANAGEMENT
2-WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT ?
3-MANAGEMENT THEORY BY TAYLOR.
4- MANAGEMNET VIEW.
5-PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT.
6-CRITICISM FOR TAYLOR’S MANAGEMENT.
7-HOW DO TODAY’S MANAGERS USE SCIENTIFIC
MANAGEMENT??
3. Frederick Winslow Taylor (20 March 1856-21 March
1915), widely known as F. W. Taylor, was an American
mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial
efficiency.
He is regarded as the father of scientific management,
and was one of the first management consultants.
He is sometimes called as “Father of Scientific
Management”.
4. It is the art of knowing what exactly you want
from your men to do & then seeing that it is
done in best possible manner.
In simple words it is just an application of
science to management.
5. Analyzing the work – One best way to do it.
He is remembered for developing time and
motion study.
He would break a job into parts and measure
each of 100th of a minute.
The efforts of his disciples (most notably
H.L.Gantt) made the industry to implement
these ideas.
6. Taylor believed that the industrial
management of his day was amateurish, that
management could be formulated as an
academic discipline.
Best results would come from the partnership
between trained and qualified management
and a cooperative and innovative workforce.
Each side needed the other and there is no need
for trade unions.
7. Science not the rule of thumb: scientific investigation
should be used for taking managerial decisions instead
of basing on opinion, institution or thumb rule.
Harmony not discard/ cooperation between employers
and employees: Harmonious relationship between
employees and employers. Cooperation of employees
that managers can ensure that work is carried in
accordance with standards.
8. Scientific selection training and development: selection
means to choose the best employee according to the
need. Their skill and experience must match the
requirement of the job.
Scientific development refers to criteria for promotions,
transfers etc.. So that work is done with full efficiency.
9. Division of work/ responsibility: The responsibility of
workers and management should be properly divided
& communicated so that they can perform them in an
effective way and should be reward for the same.
Mental revolution: Acc. To Taylor, the workers and
managers should have a complete new outlook; a
mental revolution in respect to their mutual relations.
Workers should be considered as a part of
Organization.
Employers shouldn’t treat workers as mere wage
earners.
10. The four principles of management.
1. The development of a true science.
2. The scientific selection of the workman.
3. The scientific education and development of
the workman.
4. Intimate and friendly cooperation between
the management and the men.
11. Taylor created planning departments, staffed
them with engineers, and gave them the
responsibility to:
1. Develop scientific methods for doing work.
2. Establish goals for productivity.
3. Establish systems of rewards for meeting the
goals.
4. Train the personnel in how to use the
methods and thereby meet the goals.
12. The main argument against Taylor is this reductionist
approach to work dehumanizes the worker.
The allocation of work "specifying not only what is to
be done but how it is to done and the exact time
allowed for doing it" is seen as leaving no scope for the
individual worker to excel or think.
1. The belief that increased output would lead to less
workers.
2. Inefficiencies within the management control system
such as poorly designed incentive schemes and hourly
pay rates not linked to productivity.
3. Poor design of the performance of the work by rule-
of-thumb.
13. 1. It was important because it could raise countries’
standard of living by making workers more productive
and efficient.
2. Also it’s important to remember that many of the
tools and techniques developed by the scientific
management practitioners are still used in
organizations today.
