Strength And Weakness Of Scientific Theory

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Management school Theory contribution Strengths Weaknesses F.W Taylor Scientific theory He was an American inventor and engineer and he applied his engineering and scientific knowledge to management to produce scientific theory. There are two books of his theory: shop management (1903) and principles of scientific management (1911) Ref: - http://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_Winsl ow_Taylor He was a mechanical engineer and worked in steel company in USA. This theory is mainly for the organizational and management work. Main focus of his theory is to increase production level by training employees in one best way o doing job. This theory is for production planning, production control, process design, quality control and cost accounting. …show more content…

Do you care about the goals of the organization that you work for or do you focus more on getting a regular paycheck to bring home? Douglas McGregor studied these questions and proposed two different views of employee motivation in his 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise. These views are known as Theory X and Theory Y. According to his view there are two different views of human being. One is negative and other is positive. He divides the employees according to theory x and theory y. Theory x employees who always tries to avoid work and doesn’t like to take risk. They always want less responsibility and need direction to do work and they can be motivated by money promotion and job security. These employees will cooperate when they feel their basic need for income and security is met. Theory x is also known as authoritarian management' style. Theory y employees, who like to work, they always try to do new work. They are self motivated and self directed. They always seek for responsibility. These employees are self motivated and they always want to work for the organization. These employees get more motivated when they get more authority and even manager asked about their suggestion in decision making process. Theory y is also known as participative management' …show more content…

Some of the employee has the knowledge and skills to influence other employees. This is informal power. The person who has that power other employee will try being their friend or trying to get knowledge from that person. For example, in countdown the employees who is experienced but he is not on any position he has power to influence to other employees. By his knowledge about all the work and even more about work. He knows about day filling and how to use RF gun and about night filling also. The other employee who wants to know about day filling and how to use RF gun he will ask that employee who has all the knowledge not directly to the

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