Principal and practice of managment
Q1). The principles of scientific management differ from the ordinary principles. Why? Give your comments
The Principles of Scientific Management is a monograph or a specialist work published by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911.
Scientific management is a new thinking on management. The literary meaning of scientific management is performing the work of management in a scientific manner. In other words, discarding the traditional approaches to management and adopting newer and more scientific approaches in their place is called scientific management. Taylor has said that before commencing any work, a manager should first analyze it thoroughly, and only then take any decision, first let’s try to understand the principles of scientific management by Taylor in brief then we will see why these scientific principles differ from the ordinary principles.
Scientific management by Taylor consisted of four principles-
1. They develop a science for each element of a man's work, which replaces the old rule-of-thumb method.
2. They scientifically select and then train, teach, and develop the workman, whereas in the past he chose his own work and trained himself as best he could.
3. They heartily cooperate with the men so as to ensure all of the work being done in accordance with the principles of the science which has been developed.
4. There is an almost equal division of the work and the responsibility between the management and the workmen. The management take over all work for which they are better fitted than the workmen, while in the past almost all of the work and the greater part of the responsibility were thrown upon the men.
Now let’s try to see why principles of scientific management differ from the ordinary principles. Below are the points where we can see the important principles of scientific management and the difference between principles of scientific management and ordinary principles.
• Decisions are made on the basis of facts and by the
The Principles of Scientific Management is a monograph or a specialist work published by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911.
Scientific management is a new thinking on management. The literary meaning of scientific management is performing the work of management in a scientific manner. In other words, discarding the traditional approaches to management and adopting newer and more scientific approaches in their place is called scientific management. Taylor has said that before commencing any work, a manager should first analyze it thoroughly, and only then take any decision, first let’s try to understand the principles of scientific management by Taylor in brief then we will see why these scientific principles differ from the ordinary principles.
Scientific management by Taylor consisted of four principles-
1. They develop a science for each element of a man's work, which replaces the old rule-of-thumb method.
2. They scientifically select and then train, teach, and develop the workman, whereas in the past he chose his own work and trained himself as best he could.
3. They heartily cooperate with the men so as to ensure all of the work being done in accordance with the principles of the science which has been developed.
4. There is an almost equal division of the work and the responsibility between the management and the workmen. The management take over all work for which they are better fitted than the workmen, while in the past almost all of the work and the greater part of the responsibility were thrown upon the men.
Now let’s try to see why principles of scientific management differ from the ordinary principles. Below are the points where we can see the important principles of scientific management and the difference between principles of scientific management and ordinary principles.
• Decisions are made on the basis of facts and by the