Tuesday, February 13

UNIT ONE - Ideas - Taylorism


Taylorism is a method of work management used to improve productivity. It is also known as scientific management or the classical perspective. This idea was first coined by Frederick Winslow Taylor in his "The Principles of Scientific Management". He believed that decisions based on rules of thumb and tradition should be replaced by procedures developed after studying an individual.

Taylorism used a standard method to preforming each task at hand and select workers were chosen based on their abilities to preform each job after training. Work was planned and therefore eliminated interruptions. This style of work management allowed improvement. Everything was recorded and by doing this the employer could fine a more efficient way of work. Employers followed rules and procedures to enable predictable and reliable behaviour. It also started the importance of selection and training for individual jobs. The selection of employees were based on the individuals competence, training and/or experience. Taylorism helped define authority officially and hierarchy under a higher authority began.

I think Taylorism is good idea. It helped the progress in the workplace and lead to a more official and formal way of doing things. Without Taylorism things would take longer and employers would lose money paying people for wasted time.

1 comment:

Chris Bergeron said...

They possibly have hammers ?? Or something ??