By: Raviraj Jadeja (MBA MEFGI)

Scientific management was a theory of

management that analyzed and
Combines Elements of workflows.

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 Its main objective was improving
economic efficiency, especially labor
productivity. It was one
of the earliest attempts to
apply science to the
engineering of processes
and to management.

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 A management approach formulated by
Frederick W. Taylor and others
between 1890 and 1930, that sought to
determine scientifically the best methods for
performing any task, and for selecting, training,
and motivating workers.

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 Frederick W. Taylor
(1856-1915)

 Henry L. Gantt
(1861-1991)

 Frank and Lillian Gilbreth

(1868-1924 and 1878-1972)

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 The core ideas of scientific management
were developed by Taylor in the 1880s and
1890s, and were first published in his
monographs A Piece Rate System
(1895), Shop Management (1903) and
The Principles of Scientific
Management (1911)
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 The theory of scientific management is the
“brainchild” of Frederick Winslow Taylor.

“one best way” to do a job.

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 Environment lacked work standards,
bred inefficient workers and jobs were
allocated to people without matching the job to the
worker’s skill and ability.

 Relationship of the workers

with the managers included
many confrontations.

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 Natural differences in productivity between
workers.

 Differences in talent, intelligence, or

motivations.
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standardization of process steps.

Increase in productivity and reduction

of effort.

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 Development of Science for each part of
men’s job (replacement of rule of thumb)

 Scientific Selection, Training & Development

of Workers

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 Co-operation between Management &
workers or Harmony not discord.

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 Division of Responsibility.

 Mental Revolution.

 Maximum Prosperity for Employer &

Employees.
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 A time and motion study is a business
efficiency technique combining the Time Study
work of Frederick Winslow Taylor with the
Motion Study work of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.

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 Developed the laws of human motion
from which evolved the principles of motion
economy.

 Analyzed each motion of work for wasted

efforts in an attempt to reduce each task to the
smallest amount of expended time and energy.

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 Specialized in incentive wage plans.

 Introduced a differential piece rate system

,Task work with a bonus.

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 A graphic schedule for the planning and
controlling of work, and recording progress
towards stages of a project.

"man’s record"

"daily balance of work"

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 "Organizing for Work“

 Measure activities by the amount of time needed

to complete them;

 The space on the chart can be used to represent

the amount of the activity that should
have been done in that time.

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www.ganttchart.com
Milestone Software.

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 The Henry Laurence Gantt Medal was
established in 1929 by the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers
for "distinguished achievement in management
and service to the community."

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 2000 - Paul Soros
 2001 - Roy Huffington (United States Ambassador to
Austria)
 2002 - Alexander Dreyfoos
 2003 - William Timken (U.S. Ambassador to Germany)
 2004 - Julie England
 2005 - Kathleen M. Bader
 2006 - Charla K. Wise
 2007 - Kevin M. Gottschall
 2008 - Ellen Doherty
 2009 - Claudio Valdetara

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 Scientific task planning.
 Time and motion studies.
 Standardization.
 Differential piece rate system.
 Functional foremanship.
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 Exploitative Device.

 Depersonalized Work.

 Unpsychological.
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 Undemocratic.

 Anti-Social.

 Unrealistic.
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 Most valuable and well-known brand in the
whole world.

 Established the system of rewards so that

they can meet their goals.

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 Within the restaurant chain uniformity is
complete.

 Every branch of McDonald is the same as are

the methods used to prepare food, clear floors,
promote staff and lock up on closing.

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 Aside from the base payment, the company
had established the promotional
programs and the competitive
wages, motivation, hard work,
dedication, and results that rewarded and
recognized by McDonalds.

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 programs such as the “Employees of the
Month”

 Bonuses that the company is paying for the

top employees which are based on the
performance of the business and the individual
performance.

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 Intelligence of employees
has sharply risen.

 contributing to the social well-being and

development of the individual employee.

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 Scientific management also provides a
company with the means to achieve
economies of scale.

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 Higher levels of access to technology and
information.

 Flexibility.

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 Scientific Management is still very much a
part of any organization in the 21st Century.

 Divide between management functions and

work functions have been employed widely at
all levels and in all industries.

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 It is perhaps then better to accept that as a
complete theory Scientific Management is not
visible in modern organizations, however,
elements of it are so relevant that they have
become deeply ingrained in all modern
organizations and are the very reasons why
management has taken on new dimension in
the 21st Century.

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