10 Questions
What does the term 'scientific management' refer to?
Coordinating the enterprise for everyone's benefit
Who published The Principles of Scientific Management?
Frederick Winslow Taylor
What are the sections included in the monograph?
Introduction, Fundamentals of Scientific Management, The Principles of Scientific Management
What is another term often used to refer to Taylor's approach?
Taylorism
What did Taylor's approach contradict?
The old idea that each workman can best regulate his own way of doing the work
What is the alternate term often used to refer to Taylor's approach?
Taylorism
What did Taylor's approach aim to coordinate for everyone's benefit?
Enterprise
What did Taylor's approach consider 'directly antagonistic' to the old idea?
Each workman regulating his own way of doing the work
Who did Taylor quote at the beginning of the paper?
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
What was the content of Chapter 1 in the monograph?
Fundamentals of Scientific Management
Study Notes
Scientific Management
- Refers to a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows to improve efficiency and labor productivity
The Principles of Scientific Management
- Published by Frederick Winslow Taylor in 1911
- Sections included in the monograph:
- Fundamentals of scientific management
- The principles of scientific management
- The development of the art of cutting metals
- The science of handling pig iron
- The load of the laborer
- The role of the development of the science
- Also known as Taylorism
Taylor's Approach
- Aimed to coordinate the production process for everyone's benefit
- Contradicted the old idea of worker's interest being in conflict with the employer's interest
- Considered the old idea of employee's interests conflicting with employer's interests as 'directly antagonistic'
- Quoted Henry R. Towne at the beginning of the paper, stating "Shop management has nothing to do with the paying of men"
- Chapter 1 of the monograph discussed the principles of scientific management
Test your knowledge of Frederick Winslow Taylor's "The Principles of Scientific Management" with this quiz. Explore the key concepts of industrial era organization and decision theory as laid out by Taylor in his influential 1911 monograph.
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