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    Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer in the late 19th/early 20th century who sought to improve industrial efficiency through scientific management. He studied ways jobs were performed and determined more efficient methods, establishing standardized processes. His principles included scientifically selecting workers, standardizing tasks, and cooperating with workers to ensure methods were followed. Taylor's work contributed to concepts like time and motion studies and establishing the "one best way" to perform tasks, though it was also criticized for prioritizing efficiency over worker satisfaction and for reducing jobs to specialized, boring tasks.

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    Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer in the late 19th/early 20th century who sought to improve industrial efficiency through scientific management. He studied ways jobs were performed and determined more efficient methods, establishing standardized processes. His principles included scientifically selecting workers, standardizing tasks, and cooperating with workers to ensure methods were followed. Taylor's work contributed to concepts like time and motion studies and establishing the "one best way" to perform tasks, though it was also criticized for prioritizing efficiency over worker satisfaction and for reducing jobs to specialized, boring tasks.

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    Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer in the late 19th/early 20th century who sought to improve industrial efficiency through scientific management. He studied ways jobs were performed and determined more efficient methods, establishing standardized processes. His principles included scientifically selecting workers, standardizing tasks, and cooperating with workers to ensure methods were followed. Taylor's work contributed to concepts like time and motion studies and establishing the "one best way" to perform tasks, though it was also criticized for prioritizing efficiency over worker satisfaction and for reducing jobs to specialized, boring tasks.

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    Frederick Winslow Taylor

    Presentation by: Divya.C Thanaraaj Kumar.R.S

    INTRODUCTON
    Frederick Winslow Taylor (20 March 1856 21 March 1915), widely known as F. W. Taylor, was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He was born to a wealthy Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

    In 1874, he became an apprentice patternmaker, gaining shop floor experience that would inform his rest of career. He started as Shop clerk and quickly progressed to mechanist, foreman, maintenance foreman, and chief draftsman. Within 6 years, he advanced to research director, then chief engineer.

    He began developing his management philosophies during his time at the Midvale Steel Works. At 37 Taylor became a consulting engineer. He became interested in improving worker productivity early in his career when he observed gross inefficiencies during his contact with steel workers.

    In 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor published his work, The Principles of Scientific Management which later was translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Japanese.

    PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGMENT


    Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks. A rough and useful principle or method, based on experience rather than precisely accurate measures Scientifically select, train, and develop each worker rather than passively leaving them to train themselves. Cooperate with the workers to ensure that the scientifically developed methods are being followed. Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks.

    SUPPORTING FACTORS
    Study the ways jobs are performed and determine new ways to do them.

    Gather detailed time and motion information. Try different methods to see which is best.

    Codify the new methods into rules.

    Teach to all workers the new method.

    Select workers whose skills match the rules. Establish fair levels of

    FINDINGS AND CONTRIBUTIONS


    1. Removal of trade unions: Taylor believed in partnership between a trained and qualified management and a cooperative and innovative workforce. Each side needed the other and there was no need for Trade unions. 2. Time and motion study: He developed this study by breaking a job into its component parts and measuring each. He even wrote a book on it named Shop management. Using a stopwatch he was able to minimize wasteful motions and optimize beneficial ones, resulting in increase in

    3. The One best way:

    4. Management by Exception:

    Experiments that were performed to determine the one best way to perform a particular job were:

    Use of flow diagrams and process charts. Specified the work method. Maintaining standard conditions for performing work. Set time standard goals. Paid premiums for doing work as specified.

    Pig iron The science of shoveling Brick laying

    5. Soldiering:
    Working in the steel industry, Taylor had observed the phenomenon of workers purposely operating below their level of capacity. Reasons Belief that if they become more productive, thier job would be eliminated. Non-incentive wage

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    Taylors core values


    The rule of reason, improved quality, lower costs, higher wages, higher output, labormanagement cooperation, experimentation, clear tasks and goals, feedback, training, mutual help and support, stress reduction, and the careful selection and development of people. He was the first to present a systematic study of interactions among job requirements, tools, methods, and human skill, to fit people to jobs both psychologically and physically, and to let data and facts do the talking rather than prejudice, opinions, or egomania.

    Criticisms
    Efficiency before ethics. Views where unpopular with shop-floor employees, the supervisors and middle level managers. His ideas resulted in strikes and other forms of industrial action by dissatisfied workers. In 1909, over 3,500 unorganized mass production workers revolved against inhumane working conditions produced by an efficiency drive at U.S. Steel. Relied on money to motivate. The scientific management was not successful because the managers implemented only increased output side of Taylors plan. Specialized jobs became very boring, dull. Workers ended up distrusting the Scientific Management method. The core jobs dimensions of skill variety, task identity,

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