Scientific management involves principles, techniques, and objectives to maximize productivity. Key principles include identifying unnecessary worker motions through time-and-motion studies to develop more efficient workflows. Techniques incorporate things like rest breaks and incentive-based piece rate pay to motivate higher performance. The overall objective is the prosperity of both the organization and its workers through developing each job role to its highest capacity.

1. Scientific management
• Principles
• Techniques
• Objectives

2. Fundamentals

3. Principles
• Soldering and faulty wage system
• Some workers are more talented than
others
• Forced workers perform slowest repetitive
task
• Workers fear that if they give more output
others will loose job
• Soldering-deliberately work at slow rate

4. Techniques
• Rest breaks- include rest break
• Workers recover from mental or physical
fatigue

5. Techniques
• Time and motion study
• Observing motion of worker while at work
• Identification of necessary and
unnecessary movements
• With stop watch count time of
unnecessary movements
• Eliminate unnecessary movement
• Develop movements necessary and
standard

6. Differential payment /piece rate
incentive
• Fix standard level of production
• Workers producing less than standard
receive less payment
• Workers producing more receive higher
payment
• Motivates workers to perform

7. Objective
• Maximum prosperity
• Of organization and workers
• Development of every branch of business
to its highest
• Other than higher wages highest grade of
work with natural ability to fit him
• Giving him higher class of work

8. Criticism
• Taylor is concerned only with output/productivity
• Taylor overlooked other aspects of management
like finance,accounting, marketing
• Union leader felt it as exploitation of workers
• Human element is absent in theory
• Moral of worker goes down if worker does not
complete target

9. Effectiveness
• Scientific management theory needs co-operation of
worker and management at various stages
• The worker should understand the point view of
management in increasing the production and
profitability
• Taylor advocates group harmony by eliminating
dissatisfaction among workers
• The movement of material within company should be
scientifically done
• Taylor emphasised the scientific selection of people and
need for appropriate training

10. Effectiveness
• Implementation of best way to do job
• Concept of functional foremanship
• Division of functional authority