Presentation of FW Taylor

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Assignment 03

Group 10BUS (1320 )

FMSC- Management Common Program

University of Sri Jayewardenepura

September 2010


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Quaker Efficiency Expert

Frederick Winslow Taylor


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Frederick Winslow Taylor (20March 1856 21 March 1915),

widely known as F. W. Taylor,

was an American mechanicalengineer who sought to improveindustrial efficiency. He isregarded as the father ofscientific management, and was

one of the first managementconsultants.


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Taylor was one of the intellectualleaders of the Efficiencymovement and his ideas, broadlyconceived, were highly influential

in the Progressive Era.


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Frederick Taylor and Scientific

Management

In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor published his work, The

Principles of Scientific Management.

Influenced everything

Doing certain number ofmultiplication Problems still

persist High Stakes testing


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Scientific management methods called for optimizingthe way that tasks were performed and simplifyingthe jobs enough so that workers could be trained to

perform their specialized sequence of motions in theone "best" way.


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The development of a science for each element of a manswork to replace old rule of thumb.

Scientifically selecting, training, and developing workers.

The development of a spirit of hearty cooperation

between workers.

The division of work between workers and the

management in almost equal shares.


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Labour is defined and authority is legitimized.Positions paced in hierarchy and under authority of higherlevel.

Selection is based upon technical competence training onexperience.

Actions and decisions are recorded to allow continuity andmemory.Mgt. is different from the ownership.Managers follow rules /procedures to enable reliable

behavior.


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Shift decision making from employees to managers.Develop the one best way as a standard method for

performing each job.

Select workers with appreciate abilities for each job.

Train workers in the standards method previouslydeveloped.

Support workers by planning their work.

Provide wage intensives to workers for increased output.


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Scientific approach to business management & process

improvement.Importance of compensation for performance.

Began the careful study of tasks and jobs.

Importance of selection criteria by management.Perspective of improving the productivity and efficiencyof manual workers.


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Taylors impact has been so great because he

developed a concept of work design, workmeasurement, production control and otherfunctions that completely changed the nature ofindustry.


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The aim ofScientific Management is to produceKnowledge about how to improve work process.


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His views on motivation, management

and organization all

presupposed certainconditions to be constant,

which we now know,

they are not.


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the presence of a capitalist system and a money economy,where companies in a free market have as their mainobjective the improvement of efficiency and the

maximization of profit;

the Protestant work ethic, that assumes people will workhard and behave rationally to maximize their own income,

putting the perceived requirements of their organizationbefore their own personal objectives and goals;

that an increased size is desirable in order to obtain theadvantages of the division of labor and specialization oftasks.


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His belief was that man was rational andwould make economic choices based on themonetary reward he gets.


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Organizations facing competitive situations,

must have good management labour relation

to face competitive challenges.


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Conclusion

Scientific management is basically concerned to makeOrganizations effective & efficient in terms of makingprofit.

But..Modern Organizations haveseveral motivations to performbesides making profit


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Nothing is constant except change


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