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Title: Interpreting management
Description: It’s a complete essay of business management first year at university.
Description: It’s a complete essay of business management first year at university.
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Degree Title:
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Briefly describe one modernist organization theory of your choice, and
consider its relevance and impact today
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“Modernism was a philosophical movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries
that was based on an underlying belief in the progress of society” (The rise of
modernism, lumen, 11/19/2019)
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Frederick
Winslow Taylor “was the first man in recorded history who deemed work deserving of
systematic observation and study” (Frederick Winslow Taylor, BL, 16/09/2020)
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One of the experiments which Taylor conducted to figure out the one best way was
the shovel experiment which consisted of figuring out the optimal weight which as
shovel should hold and the amount material which has been moved from one place
to another, Taylor tested this experiment by taking 10 workers and make them move
material from one point to another by keeping track of the time and each time he
reduced the weight which the shovel should hold, eventually, Taylor started to notice
that each time he reduce the weight the amount of material moved increased
however as he kept reducing the weight of the shovel it reached a point where the
amount of material moved decreased there he came with the conclusion that 21
pounds were the perfect weight for the shovel and showed the best results for the
amount material moved by the workers within the same given timeframe
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Taylor believed that motivated employees would be able to
follow the instructions given to them by their managers and be able to finish their
work at a faster rate, therefore he made the decision to pay higher wages to the hard
working employees which performed at a higher standard compared to the rest, this
motivated many workers to stand out, Taylor also believed in the division of labour
where each employee would do a small part of a specific project and then sent it to
another employee to complete another part if, this technique showed to the
improvement of the time taken to finish a particular project to lower drastically which
then resulted in more work being done within the working hours
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In Frederick Taylor’s theory, the humanitarian sector is a missing as employees were
treated more like machines than a human being by doing the same repetitive tasks
without any free will or skill set, “ we do not want any initiative
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Another issue with Taylor’s theory is
the exploitation of its workers as they were expected to do more work at a faster
rate, the theory mainly focused more on profitability and how the company could
make more money rather than focus on their workers
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In conclusion, we can see that Taylor has found ways to improve the efficiency of its
employees and as a result increase the number of products and services by the
company, his theories and ideology shaped many businesses structures today,
however, there are many faults in his theory which still need to be paid most
attention to
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lumenlearning
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com/2011/02/03/the-science-of-shoveling/
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Organizational Communication Channel, 2/09/2016
https://www
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com/watch?v=vNfy_AHG-MU&t=308s
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FW Taylor, The principles of scientific management, 1911
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MSG, Criticism of Scientific Management,2008)
https://www
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com/criticism_scientificmanagement
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theguardian
Title: Interpreting management
Description: It’s a complete essay of business management first year at university.
Description: It’s a complete essay of business management first year at university.