Taylorism
Key Elements of Taylorism and Its Applicability
1.0 Introduction
Frederick Winslow Taylor published a book in 1911 recommending his theory of scientific management which altered the management model later. There are many management theories willing to improve workers’ efficiency but not influential while Taylor used scientific methods to sum up standardized rules and the theory was spread till today and still available. In the following text, three key elements of the Taylorism and their applicability in contemporary organizations will be presented and analysed.
2.0 Body
2.1 Scientific
The first element is that the theory is on the basis of scientific experiment. Scientific management is a theory which is summarized through scientific experiment. Tailor (1911) mentioned that in the past, no systematic management exists to help the company manage their workers and as a result, many workers were reluctant to improve their working efficiency. In 1881, Taylor was a machine shop labor at Midvale Steel Works (Donnelly 1998) and he discovered that workers there were unwilling to make the best use of their time to achieve the mass production. Therefore, Taylor made a metal cutting experiment which cost 26 years and he made about 30 thousand trials to obtain the most efficient way of running the machine and reasonable workload for each workers. Tailor (1911) thought the main problem of management is to improve production efficiency. Then, a reasonable daily workload should be calculated according to some scientific theory and plenty of tests and experiments. Ultimately, a standardized working process is summarized considering workers’ break time, wasted time, slow action, invalid action and other factors. Fang (2011) suggested that the theory is not only suitable for running business, it is also available to individual. He also presented an example that if we plan to write an essay, we need to write down an outline, scheme what to read and what to prepare. Only
1.0 Introduction
Frederick Winslow Taylor published a book in 1911 recommending his theory of scientific management which altered the management model later. There are many management theories willing to improve workers’ efficiency but not influential while Taylor used scientific methods to sum up standardized rules and the theory was spread till today and still available. In the following text, three key elements of the Taylorism and their applicability in contemporary organizations will be presented and analysed.
2.0 Body
2.1 Scientific
The first element is that the theory is on the basis of scientific experiment. Scientific management is a theory which is summarized through scientific experiment. Tailor (1911) mentioned that in the past, no systematic management exists to help the company manage their workers and as a result, many workers were reluctant to improve their working efficiency. In 1881, Taylor was a machine shop labor at Midvale Steel Works (Donnelly 1998) and he discovered that workers there were unwilling to make the best use of their time to achieve the mass production. Therefore, Taylor made a metal cutting experiment which cost 26 years and he made about 30 thousand trials to obtain the most efficient way of running the machine and reasonable workload for each workers. Tailor (1911) thought the main problem of management is to improve production efficiency. Then, a reasonable daily workload should be calculated according to some scientific theory and plenty of tests and experiments. Ultimately, a standardized working process is summarized considering workers’ break time, wasted time, slow action, invalid action and other factors. Fang (2011) suggested that the theory is not only suitable for running business, it is also available to individual. He also presented an example that if we plan to write an essay, we need to write down an outline, scheme what to read and what to prepare. Only