Question

Briefly explain the principal contribution of F.W Taylor to the development of management through and practice?

Answer 1

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Consider the following situation and answer the questions below as they relate to Frederick Taylor's four general principles for management. You currently run a business that manufactures and sells notebooks. At the end of the year, you realize that your costs have been escalating and believe that the best way to reduce costs is to find a way to make your employees more productive so that they can manufacture the notebooks faster and cheaper.

In what way (or ways) would you gather the information that can be used to analyze and determine the best way to make your employees more productive? How would you use this information to change your production process? (Hint: It may be helpful to create a hypothetical solution to best answer this question).

Do you think there could be a scientific approach that could be used to solve your problem? If so, explain this potential solution.

How would you bridge the gap between the new method that you develop and what your employees currently do? Specifically, how would you get your employees to adopt the new method?

How would you get all employees to complete the new method? That is, how would you be sure that all employees and managers are completing the task the new way as opposed to some completing it the new way while others complete it the old way?

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