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In the current 21st century we can see numerous amount of evidence of scientific management, for instance all the different manufacturing plants, verity of restaurants such as. The modern organizations are able to function proficiently or efficiently due to applying specific concepts method of scientific management in their organization. Scientific management is significant part of business in the 21st century; the influence of the theory goes beyond of what we see in reality, the methods of scientific management are even shared by organization that are seen as miner in business world. It is really important to notices here that while scientific management has been used by modern organization it still comes with some limitations. Therefore, in this particular essay at the beginning will introduce how scientific management developed through the history since late 18century. Also, be examining in full detail the advantages and disadvantages of scientific management in the 21st century, in order to do this I will be carefully investigating how certain applications of scientific management applied to number of modern organizations and the key thesis of this essay is investigate whether scientific management is relevant to 21st century.
In order to see whether scientific management is relevant to this present day we need to look back and see its development from the beginning, the publicity of scientific management began in the late nineteen century (1880s-1890s) and the early 21st century (1910s-1920s). It has been regarded as an era where it began to influence rivalries and complementary ideas. The development of scientific management was instigated by Frederick Warslow Taylor and, who is often referred to as “the father of scientific management”. And, through his own research thought to have developed industrial efficiency and even though scientific management was out dated in 1930s, scientific management is also known as taylorism due to F.W.Taylor who started
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