What is meant by scientific management ? Its limitations?
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Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows. Its main objective is improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes and to management.
Limitations of scientific management: –
a. It is based upon one best way and is applicable for simple organizations than that for today’s dynamic and complex organization
b. It focuses on individual performance than group efforts and divides the workers into efficient and inefficient categories
c. It is focused on specialization and repetition of jobs to increase the productivity which reduces innovation and creativity and promotes monotony
d. It neglects human factor because it motivates workers to work for monetary benefits rather than human resource development and resources
e. There is no scope for creativity of employees because they are developed by manager which promotes frustration.