MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO
THE DEVELOPMENT OF
MANAGEMENT
SCIENCE
Presented by:
Mae Valdez & Chrischan Ramirez
Frederick Winslow Taylor
FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR
• He is called the Father of Scientific
Management, which is also known as
“Taylorism.”
• He was born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
• He was a Mechanical Engineer,
efficiency expert, and management
consultant.
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• became Chief Engineer at Midvale Steel
Works in Philadelphia.
The Principles
of Scientific
Management
The Principles of Scientific Management
• In this book, Taylor suggested that productivity would
increase if jobs were optimized and simplified.
• He also proposed matching a worker to a particular job
that suited the person’s skill level and then training the
worker to do that job in a specific way.
• Taylor first developed the idea of breaking down each
job into component parts and timing each part to
determine the most efficient method of working.
• In this book, Taylor starts with the following statement:
“The principal object of management should be to
secure the maximum prosperity for the employer,
coupled with the maximum prosperity for each
[employee].”
Taylor’s philosophy had good intentions
for everyone and problems come from
poor application.
• Employees incorrectly believing that greater
productivity would result in lost jobs;
• “Defective systems of management” that
work against employees and productivity;
• An inability to leave behind traditional and
habitually inefficient procedures; and
• Driving workers “against their wishes, and
without much increase in pay, to work much
harder, instead of gradually teaching and
leading them toward new methods.”
Frederick Taylor’s four principles of Scientific
Management
Develop a science Scientifically select and
for each element of then train, teach, and
work. develop the worker
Cooperate with the Equally divide “the
worker so as to ensure work and the
all of the work is being responsibility between
done in accordance with the management and
the the workers,”
principles of the science where “the
which has been management take
developed. over all work for which
they are better fitted
than the workers.”
Taylor (1947) Proposed four principles to achieve greater
prosperity of both the employer and
employees.
Harmony or Scientific
Science, cooperation selection, and Division of
not a rule of between training and work
thumb employer development
and workers of workers
Scientific management has at its heart four core
principles that also apply to organizations today.
They include the following:
Look at each job or task scientifically to
determine the “one best way” to perform the
job.
Hire the right workers for each job, and train
them to work at maximum efficiency.
Monitor worker performance, and provide
instruction and training when needed.
Divide the work between management and
labor so that management can plan and train,
and workers can execute the task efficiently.
• Scientific management grew in
popularity among big businesses
because productivity rose, proving that
it worked.
• Today, an updated version of his
original theory is used by such
companies as FedEx and Amazon.
• Digital Taylorism is based on
maximizing efficiency by standardizing
the tools and techniques for completing
each task involved with a given job.
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MAE ANTONETTE VALDEZ CHRISCHAN RAMIREZ
BSMA-2 BSA- 2
Management Science
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