Advantages Of Scientific Management

Frederic Winslow Taylor (1865-1915) was an engineer and most importantly an innovator who affects the way many organizations function even today. In his time he introduced the term of scientific management which refers to a system where leaders are capable of managing and workers are able to execute the tasks given by the managers in the most efficient and productive way in a mass production environment with the basic element of job specialization (McKenna, 2012, p.7). According to Taylor, scientific management should include the selection of the best qualified people to work in a company, the incentives to work harder and as a result more efficient by awarding them with higher salaries as well as the authority given to the managers to control

First of all, managers have the control of production. Workers by repeating a specific task they acquire specialized knowledge and in this way the job of managers becomes easier. As a result, better relationships are created between managers and workers (Maheshwari, 2004, p.72). Secondly, the productive result for the firm rises through the process of organized and strictly controlled tasks. This means that there is an increase in productivity and low cost of production (Drummond, 2000, p.45).Thirdly, there is a positive social impact as well because consumers acquire goods and services of better quality and workers face an increase on salaries which leads to improved living standards (Ghuman and Aswathappa, 2010,

In every pit stop these engineers clearly try to refill and set up the car as fast as they can and each of them has a specific and separate task.

From my experience in the practical example in the class in which I was given the opportunity to function as an individual and as a part of a team based on scientific management I realized that on one hand to work as an individual is less productive and time consuming but on the other hand working on a group of five with everyone having a specific task to execute, the number of products increased. Also, the production pace increased despite the fact that after a while the work became monotonous and tedious.

Taking everything into consideration, the theory of scientific management proved to be influential on the function of firms from the birth of Taylorism up until now with substantial success for organizations growth and profitability. However, it tends to have a negative aspect in adaptation to new circumstances and has a double effect (positive and negative) in