Scientific Management Was the Product of 19th Century Industrial Practices and Has No Relevance to the Present Day.
Scientific Management was the product of 19th Century industrial practices and has no relevance to the present day.
Adam Smith was the first person who developed the theory of Scientific Managementin 1800. He was the first person who broke the tasks into sub tasks to carry out the work in the factory where he was working. To the surprise, the labourthatused to make 20 pins a day produced around 4800 pins a day.Later in 19thcentury, Frederick Winslow Taylor devised the scientific management in order to improve the productivity of labour by analysing the process of workflow(Wrege, C.D. (2008).Frederick Taylor was termed as father of scientific management and also the scientific management was termed as Taylorism due to his contribution in understanding the workflow process in the factories. Though he contributed maximum, but there were others like Gantt and Gilbreth who also contributed to the theory of scientific management.Technically speaking the scientific management is the concern related with the efficiency of the worker working individually. However according to the George Ritzerscientific management is a nonhuman procedure and have used their control on the workers.Before Taylorism, it was only one rule that was followed by all business that was “rule of thumb”; here the workerwas responsible for taking the initiative and also control of the work therefore the results of success and failure were because of his hard work.However, according to Taylor, the rule of thumb was not sufficient and with his studies of his work place he concluded that there is only “one best way”. (Kanigel, R.1997). That one best way was that he wanted to divide the workamong the workers and the employees and give specific task to each labour and expected them to do that particular task constantly.According to him it was the best method that should be adopted by the employees and will also create a best job.(Wrege, C.D. (2008). Logically speaking, his adoption of this method
Adam Smith was the first person who developed the theory of Scientific Managementin 1800. He was the first person who broke the tasks into sub tasks to carry out the work in the factory where he was working. To the surprise, the labourthatused to make 20 pins a day produced around 4800 pins a day.Later in 19thcentury, Frederick Winslow Taylor devised the scientific management in order to improve the productivity of labour by analysing the process of workflow(Wrege, C.D. (2008).Frederick Taylor was termed as father of scientific management and also the scientific management was termed as Taylorism due to his contribution in understanding the workflow process in the factories. Though he contributed maximum, but there were others like Gantt and Gilbreth who also contributed to the theory of scientific management.Technically speaking the scientific management is the concern related with the efficiency of the worker working individually. However according to the George Ritzerscientific management is a nonhuman procedure and have used their control on the workers.Before Taylorism, it was only one rule that was followed by all business that was “rule of thumb”; here the workerwas responsible for taking the initiative and also control of the work therefore the results of success and failure were because of his hard work.However, according to Taylor, the rule of thumb was not sufficient and with his studies of his work place he concluded that there is only “one best way”. (Kanigel, R.1997). That one best way was that he wanted to divide the workamong the workers and the employees and give specific task to each labour and expected them to do that particular task constantly.According to him it was the best method that should be adopted by the employees and will also create a best job.(Wrege, C.D. (2008). Logically speaking, his adoption of this method
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