The Principles of Scientific Management

Toyota's management system, officially known as the Toyota Production System (TPS) has patterned its management strategy from the scientific management. Taiichi Ohno, a former president of Toyota, studied the work of Fredrick Taylor and invented the "TPS": Toyota Production System. The purpose of this production system was to prevent inconsistency in the work and eliminate wastes or delays. The company did not want their workers to stand, wait and attend machines. The workers were required to…

(1916/2005) proposes scientific management of work to alleviate the common work problems of inefficiency, slow rate of work, and decreased productivity by using the workers and management to work together striving toward the same fundamental interests. The main objective of the scientific management is to systematically gather information about the work process and the worker in order to improve overall efficiency, especially labor productivity. Emphasis placed on teamwork between management…

Classical Management Theory was opined in the late 19th century. It became prevalent in the first half of the 20th century, as companies sought to address concerns related to industrial management, like specialization, higher quality, efficiency, management-worker relationships and cost reduction. Whereas other management theories have advanced ever since, classical management tactics are still used today by several companies to grow their companies and to succeed. A good initiative is that,…

Bharat Forge was started in 1961 by Baba Kalyani, an MIT trained engineer who wanted to put India on the map for manufacturing. He had a bold vision that the future of Indian manufacturing would be driven by sophisticated production rather than muscle power. He made a bold move to change most of his blue collared workers to white collared ones and investing heavily in automating his plant. Suzlon is a textile industry started by Tulsi Tanti in the year 1992. Initially Suzlon went from being a…

5.0 Leadership style 5.1 Leadership style Leadership style was identified by Kurt Lewin, who was renowned social scientist in 1939 (Encyclopedia of Management, 6th edition, p.459). Leaders need to adjust their leadership style to fit for the certain groups or environmental settings. Based on his research, he found that leadership style can be classified into three categories, which is authoritarian leadership style, democratic leadership style and laissez-faire leadership style. Authoritarian…

Introduction The father of business consulting, Peter Drucker, once said that a business enterprise’s purpose is to create a customer by using two main business functions being marketing and innovation. Walter Strathmeyer, an intellectual German biochemist who founded Biostrath, articulated the brand’s positioning as a leading household name in the pharmaceutical and supplement industry, using the basic functions of marketing and innovation. In this critique, I discuss how Biostrath garnered…

the details of the GM - FB case on the basis of preceding scientific publications. After the careful consideration, I present the following thesis: “The FB – GM case is attributed with the impossibility of the assignment of one single scientific theory to explain it. In order to fully understand the intent for hold ups of both transactors, a combination of theory-based assumptions, such as the transaction cost approach, and non-scientific factors, such as the relationship of the transactors…

Frederick Taylor provides a good example -- first he was inspired by Henry Towne’s paper in 1886, later he shared his own ideas through papers before the ASME, and still later as ASME president he funded Morris Cooke to study the administrative effectiveness of the ASME (which no doubt influenced Cooke’s career in governmental service organizations). The reasons for activity in professional organizations should be evident to any real professional, but this question can be used as a springboard…

1.0 Introduction Organizational theories have tried to shape management practices in organizations and even till now still does. I will attempt to evaluate two organizational theoretical approaches, its merits and demerits and its relevance to human resources professionals in the new world of work. 2.0 Classical and Neoclassical Management Approaches The neoclassical organization theory also called (Theory-Y) was brought upon by the “human relations movement” Walonick (1993) and “reflects the…

Scientific Management The idea of Scientific Management was introduced by Frederick Taylor. Taylor’s proposal was that employees get paid by how well they work. This meant that the sooner you completed your daily tasks the better paid you get. He also stated that there should be respect between all levels of management and their employees. Bureaucracy Following on from Taylor’s introduction of a scientific management style, Max Weber introduced Bureaucracy in the 1930’s. Weber stated that…