NAME: Brigette Joy E.

Lazarte

Subject: GS67 EDUC 615 Human Relations

Program &Major: MAVED

Instructor : RINO ANTHONY M. DEMETERIO DM; PhD

Activity # 2
Making Manual Work Productive Knowledge Work
TITLE

Making Manual Work Productive Knowledge work includes manual operations that require skills and
attitudes . Frederick Winslow Taylor’s principles sound deceptively simple. The first step in making the
manual worker productive is to look at the task and to analyze its constituent motions. The next step
is to record each motion, the physical effort it takes and the time it takes. Then motions that are not
needed can be eliminated. Then each of the motions that remain as essential to obtaining the finished
product is set up so as to be done the simplest way, the easiest way, the way that puts the least
physical and mental strain on the operator, the way that puts the least physical and mental strain on
the operator, the way that requires the least time. Then these motions are put together again into a
“job” that is in logical sequence. Finally, the tools needed to do the motions are redesigned. Taylor’s
approach is still going to be the organizing principle in countries in which manual work is the growth
sector of society and economy. In developed countries the challenge is no longer to make manual
work productive. The central challenge will be to make knowledge workers productive. But, there is a
tremendous amount of knowledge work—including work requiring highly advanced and theoretical
knowledge—that includes manual operations. And the productivity of these operations also requires
Industrial Engineering, the name by which Taylor’s methodology now goes.

ACTION POINT: We all have work experience before our current jobs. The question is How did/do
you figure out the mixed of knowledge work and manual work in your job? If u encountered any
when? and How did/do you apply the basic principles of work? to the latter.

Answer:
Frederick Winslow Taylor’s is the father of Scientific Management, which gives more ideas
on the principles of manual work productive and knowledge work that other philosophers have also
come up with this kind of study. With this different company’s is adopting these kinds of principles
about their employees and how they will make use of their particular positions.

As an educator, information is very important in any aspect you will look into. In the first
week of work, you will focus more on the knowledge work, wherein you look for some information
and then use it for your lesson or activity. After that, you will look deeper into the data since it will
connect across and within the curriculum. Once you're done with all the paper work, it's time for the
manual work to come in, like printing the activities, modules, and any other hard copy of the materials
to make them simple and tangible. In the learning industry, knowledge work and manual work are
always combined, or they stick from one work to another. Recently in my job, when delivering a lesson,
you will look into the information so that you can give more real-life scenarios to the student, and that
idea is already the knowledge work, and once the discussion is on-going, you will use a printer,
photocopier, laptop, and speaker. This time, I’m already engaging with the manual work.

Based on the principles, how did I follow them in the aforementioned job is that it requires the
proper sequencing or steps to have a smooth flow in your work. Just like the first step of Taylor’s
principle, I also take time to analyze the things that I need to prioritize. Second, I eliminate some of
the work that I think will not be useful or time-consuming. Third, making a plan or schedule of the
different tasks to do to make it to the deadline Fourth, I will find ways to make my job easier and more
convenient. And lastly, I will proofread the things that I’ve made again. Once the output is not good
enough, I will try to replan or redo the task that I will do until I come up with the best output.