F W Taylor

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Aakash Prasad
A. Sunil Kumar
A. Anusha
Submitted to B. Sushanka
Goud
Dr. Syed Mansoor Pasha B.
Akshitha
 F.W.Taylor
 Fredrick Winslow Taylor generally we know as F.W.Taylor.
 He was born on march 20 1856 in German town.

 He was Graduated from Stevens Institute Technology

as mechanical engineer in 1883.

 Taylor began the theory development in us during 1880’s and

1890’s within manufacturing industries, especially steel.

 He is Known as Father of Scientific Management.
 Scientific Management
 Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes
and synthesizes workflow.
 Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor

productivity.
 one of the earliest attempts to apply science tithe engineering of

processes and to management.

 Scientific management is sometimes known as Taylorism after

F.W. Taylor.
 Advantages Disadvantages

 Enhanced teamwork Cooperation  Influences feeling of

between managers and workers. pressure among the workers.
 Better planning and decision
 May de-motivate workers.
making Improved economic and
 Managerial decisions may
work efficiency
 Increased opportunities for involve strictness and stress
workers to acquire scientific for managers due to need for
training complete control over the
 Reduced waste work place
 Taylor's 4 principles of scientific management
1. Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on
scientific study of task.
2. Scientifically select, train and develop each worker rather than
passively leaving them to train themselves.
3. Cooperate with the workers to ensure that developed methods are
followed.
4. Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers.
 Time Studies by Taylor
 Times study was began in 1980’s as a means of wage-rate setting
by F.W. Taylor.
 It is a process to scientifically determine the optimal way to perform

a job, he performed experiments he called Time studies.

 It was characterized by the use of stopwatch to time a worker's

sequence of motion.
 Some examples are: The science of shoveling, pig iron..,
 Effect of Scientific Management Techniques
on today's Human Resources Management
 Taylor's personnel selection philosophies are acceptable in today's
management science.
 Previously it was assumed that anybody can do anything.
 But scientific management highlights importance of recruiting the

right personnel and training of them.

 Conclusion
 Taylor has substantially contributed to today's human resources
management.
 His theories form a basis for personnel selection, being one of the

most important functions of personnel management.

 Although he has been criticized for putting the human factor into the

background.
 Taylor was effective in the development of long-term employment by

suggesting recruiting the personnel by means of scientific methods.

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