Frederick W. Taylor's Scientific Management Principles
Subject name: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
Assessment task (no): ASSESSMENT TASK NO. 2
Essay topic question: Describe and evaluate the key elements of Frederick Taylor's approach to 'scientific management' and comment on its applicability in contemporary organisations (You might select a particular industry or occupational area for this analysis).
Class teacher’s name: Philomena Bilotta
Submitted by: Michael Kevin Roldan
Student number: S3380334
This paper discusses the major elements and key principles of Frederick Taylor’s approach to ‘scientific management’ providing examples of specific way on how it could be implemented in modern organisations and mentioning the advantage and disadvantages of scientific management in contemporary industries. Additionally, introducing Henry Grant, Henry Ford, Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Gilbreth’s contributions to Taylorism and outlining the suitability of Taylor’s philosophies for controlling modern-day organisations will be examined and accomplish observations sustaining the idea will be obtainable. Furthermore, presenting comments on its applicability in current business and reviewing if the scientific management is still applicable in present institutions.
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1917), the founder of scientific management, puts forward the knowledge that employees are motivated mainly by remuneration. According to Macmillan (2012), Taylor developed his philosophies on labour organisation while working as superintendent at the Midvale Steel Company in Pennsylvania, USA. Dissatisfied with what Taylor observed as an absence of productivity among American employees, Taylor created an alternation of ‘time-management’ trainings that caused in his well-known exertion, Taylor fixed out an arrangement of efficient labour that ultimately was accepted by managers all over the United States, most particularly Henry Ford, who practiced Taylor's principles in his assembly-line production, an approach other would later call
Assessment task (no): ASSESSMENT TASK NO. 2
Essay topic question: Describe and evaluate the key elements of Frederick Taylor's approach to 'scientific management' and comment on its applicability in contemporary organisations (You might select a particular industry or occupational area for this analysis).
Class teacher’s name: Philomena Bilotta
Submitted by: Michael Kevin Roldan
Student number: S3380334
This paper discusses the major elements and key principles of Frederick Taylor’s approach to ‘scientific management’ providing examples of specific way on how it could be implemented in modern organisations and mentioning the advantage and disadvantages of scientific management in contemporary industries. Additionally, introducing Henry Grant, Henry Ford, Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Gilbreth’s contributions to Taylorism and outlining the suitability of Taylor’s philosophies for controlling modern-day organisations will be examined and accomplish observations sustaining the idea will be obtainable. Furthermore, presenting comments on its applicability in current business and reviewing if the scientific management is still applicable in present institutions.
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1917), the founder of scientific management, puts forward the knowledge that employees are motivated mainly by remuneration. According to Macmillan (2012), Taylor developed his philosophies on labour organisation while working as superintendent at the Midvale Steel Company in Pennsylvania, USA. Dissatisfied with what Taylor observed as an absence of productivity among American employees, Taylor created an alternation of ‘time-management’ trainings that caused in his well-known exertion, Taylor fixed out an arrangement of efficient labour that ultimately was accepted by managers all over the United States, most particularly Henry Ford, who practiced Taylor's principles in his assembly-line production, an approach other would later call