Scientific Theory by sweta leena panda

1. SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
OR
TAYLORISM
BY: -
SWETA LEENA PANDA
STUTEE DAS
SHIVANI ARORA
ARPITA MOHANTY
SUCHETA MOHANTY

2. “It is the art of knowing exactly
what is to be done in the best
and the cheapest way.”
SCINTFIC MANAGEMENT
Important components of scientific management
include analysis, synthesis, logic, rationality,
empiricism, work ethic, efficiency, elimination of
waste, and standardized best practices.

3.  Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915)
was an American mechanical engineer who sought to
improve industrial efficiency.
 He was one of the first management consultants.
 Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency
Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly
influential in the Progressive Era.
 Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his book The
Principles of Scientific Management.
 Taylor's pioneering work in applying engineering principles
to the work done on the factory floor was instrumental in the
creation and development of the branch of engineering
that is now known as industrial engineering.
 Taylor was also an athlete who competed nationally in
tennis and golf.
FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR

4.  The rule of reason experimentation
 Clear tasks and goals
 Training
 Stress reduction
 Careful selection and development of
people
 Improved quality
 Lower costs
 Higher wages
 Increased output
 Labor-management
TAYLOR‘S CORE VALUES

5. PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTFIC MANAGEMENT
Mental Revolution
Develop of work
and Responsibility
Scientific selection
training and
Development
Harmony not
discard
Science not the
rule of thumb

6. CRITICISM FOR SCIENTFIC MANAGEMENT
The main
argument against
Taylor is this
reductionist
approach to
work
dehumanizes the
worker
1 The allocation of
work "specifying
not only what is
to be done but
how it is to done
and the exact
time allowed for
doing it" is seen
as leaving no
scope for the
individual worker
to excel .
2
The belief that increased
output would lead to less
workers.
Inefficiencies within the
management control
system such as poorly
designed incentive
schemes and hourly pay
rates not linked to
productivity.
Poor design of the
performance of the
work by rule-of-thumb
3

7. SCIENTFIC
METHODS OF
MANAGEMENT
CONTRSTED
•The most efficient manner to
perform a task is determined and
everyone does it that way
•Task Analysis
•Bureaucratic Organization
Structure
•Span of Control and Top Down
Management
Scientific Management
•Concern for people
not the task
•Participatory
decision-making
•Emphasis on
Individual
Contributions and
Personal Awareness
•Flexibility
Humanistic Approach
•Focused on the interaction
of the organization and its
larger environment
•Leaders are high-task
oriented (work structure)
and high-relationships
oriented (concern for
others)
•Organizations are a set of
interrelated elements
functioning as a whole
Social System Approach
•Focus on an improved,
decentralized system of
management changing
environment
•Organizational Change
Models that help
organizations prepare for
future challenges
Futuristic approach

8. Yet still on a meeting we may come
across similar discussion…