Taylorism contributed in many areas of management in nowadays organisations. Four aspects are selected to present.
Dividion labour.
Taylor reduced the number of people shoveling at the Bethlehem steel works from 500 to 140. This work, and his studies on the handing of big iron, greatly contributed to the analysis of work design and gave rise to method study.
Mass production methods in modern day factories
This method could product the highest volum of production by use a sequence consist of the best actions and best tools using by the best workers. It reduces fault, inefficiency and invalid motions among product.
Automation and outsourcing
Outsourcing is the contracting out of a business process, which can organization may have previously performed internally or has a new need for to an independent organization from which the process is purchased back as a service.
Outsourcing is dividing the activities of the business into various specialized role and sending part of the activities overseas to obtain economic efficiency or cheap labour costs.
For example, a company like Tesco sends its call centre to India, it is somehow adopting the principles that Taylor suggested regarding scientifically dividing tasks in the workplace to improve productivity and reduce economic output.
Lean manufacturing
Lean is centered on preserving value with less work.
Lean manufacturing is a variation on the theme of efficiency based on optimizing flow and it is a present-day instance of the recurring theme in human history toward increasing efficiency, decreasing waste and using empirical methods to decide what matters, rather than uncritically accepting pre-existing ideas.
International manager’s assignments
International management is the process of developing strategies, designing and operating system, and working with people around the world to ensure sustain competitive advantage.
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