Taylor's Principle of Management

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The principles of Scientific Management are a monograph published by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911.The Principles of Scientific Management is the Bible for task managers. He presents struggle for control of production between management and labor. Taylor’s system of scientific industrial management, promised to reduce the waste and inefficiency in the workplace through the scientific analysis of labor process. The modern systems of manufacturing and management would not be the instance of efficiency that they are today, without the work of Taylor. Taylor was an American manufacturing manager, mechanical engineer and then a management consultant in his later years. His writings on efficiency and scientific management were widely read. The main elements of the Scientific Managements as described by Taylor are; Time studio Functional or specialized supervision Standardization of tools and implements. Standardization of work methods separated the planning function management, by use of the exception principle. Task allocation and large bonus for successful, performance, and the use of the differential rate systems for classifying products and implements a routing system, a modern costing system. Taylor called these elements “merely the elements or details of the mechanisms of management” He saw them as extensions of the four principles of management; the scientific selection of the workman, intimate and friendly cooperation between the management and the men, the scientific education and development of the workman, and the development of a true science. He is regarded as the father of scientific management. Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in the progressive Era. His approach is also often referred to, as Taylor’s Principles, or Taylorism. In this 21st century, management

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