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Taylor joined the Midvale Steel Works as
an apprentice in 1978 and rose to a chief engineer in 1984
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Taylor, an engineer by training and profession, is
regarded as the father of scientific management
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Based on his experiences and experiments, he developed fundamental
principles of scientific management
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Background: the first coherent administrative theory known as 'Scientific Management'
was propounded in the beginning of the twentieth century
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So he is regarded as the 'father of scientific management'
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The work to be done and the methods to be adopted and selection of tools were also
determined by workers
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Decisions and standards of work performance were made on the basis
of 'rule of thumb' that provided the workers with an opportunity for a 'systematic
soldering' as well as the purposeful restriction of output
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Taylor's work, The
Principles of Scientific Management-1911, revolutionized the idea of optimizing
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It offered a systematic approach
that managers could apply to their own organization
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The most efficient ways of completing tasks and standard work procedures
were believed to enhance productivity
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By doing so, Taylor was able to find the 'one
best way' of doing a job
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The scientific selection of workers: It involved the scientific selection and progressive
development of the workers so that each worker would be assigned responsibility for
the task for which he/she was best suited
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Taylor emphasized that unless the science of doing work and the workers are brought
together, all efforts will be lost
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In a nutshell, productivity and efficiency were the primary ends of scientific
management
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Scientific
Management is a combination of all these principles and these principles cannot be
isolated
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The standards of work performance were determined on the
basis of rule of thumb rather than following any scientific basis
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other words, he proposed using specialized experts known as functional foreman each
of whom was responsible for some specific aspect of the worker's task
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[He opposed the linear
system or military type of organization in which each worker is subordinate to only one
boss]

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Time study is an act of observing and recording the time required to do a particular work
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To deal with this problem, he developed the system of
'differential piecework' for motivating them to achieve the highest level of efficiency 2
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Mental revolution: Scientific management, in its essence, according to Taylor involves
a complete mental revolution in the attitudes of workers toward their work and in the
attitudes of managers/management toward their duties and the ways in which they
handle their daily problems
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According to Taylor, MENTAL REVOLUTION is the essence of scientific management
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Contribution
Taylor's ideas of scientific management and his concepts about management of
resources, workers and workplace were revolutionary in his time
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Its ideas largely influenced
administrative thought and management practices over time
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The general principles of standards of
work, functional organization, selecting and placing the right person for the right job are
still being used widely in both private and public administration
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