Introduction of Taylorism

Introduction

Taylorism is systems of scientific management advocated by Fred W. Taylor in the 1880s and 1890s, and was first published in his monographs Shop Management (1903) and The Principles of Scientific Management (1911). The author Taylor therefore is regarded as "the father of management". And today I want discuss whether this system is useful or not to the modern originations. Can the system be contacted with China's company?

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We cannot deny that taylorism is an innovative development. Before the 20th century, there is no series management method in Factories and enterprises. the only methods are limited to the workers themselves, that is, hoping the workers can work more actively. However, Taylor completely subvert this way of thinking, it noted that managers need to add new jobs to improve productivity and increase profits, and to achieve these purposes we should use the Principles of Scientific Management.

Taylor's approach to work organization and employment relations was based on the following five principles:

1. Maximum job fragmentation

2. Separate planning and doing

3. Separate "direct" and "indirect" labor

4. A minimization of skill requirements

5. A minimization of handling component parts and material.

The object of scientific management was to discover these laws and apply the "one best way" to basic managerial functions such as selection, promotion, compensation, training, and production.

Let's view an example to make this more distinct. Some young female migratory workers inspection bicycle steel balls, the management revolutions achieved the overall change that 32 young women completed the work completed by 120 young women before the accurate rate of speed under test than the original test with high accuracy under low-speed 2/3! As the result, both of the company and the workers got benefits.

These young women get the benefits of: First, they were paid 80% -100% higher than the original. Secondly, the working hours shortened from the original daily 10.5 hours to 8.5 hours, on Saturday there is a half-day rest period and every day, reasonable arrangements of the four break times are given to each healthy young workers to ensure them not be caused by fatigue. Thirdly, each young women feel the special care and attention from managers. If she encounters any problems, there is always helps and teachers can be relied on. The fourth is that every month, all young women have two full days of paid vacation, and they can choose whenever they want.

At the same time, the company achieves the benefits too. First, the qualities of the products have continuously improvement. Secondly, as managers and workers established a good relationship, it can reduce the various labor disputes and avoid a strike.

However, in many people's idea, Taylor's system is not that much perfect. His thought is unpopular in the early 20th century in united state. Each of his works has been protests from U.S. trade unions and socialists. Many articles criticized Taylor's proposals were often published in many major U.S newspapers. Taylor also suffered from the strong opposition of the workers in its long career with Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The problem of his theory was soon exposed. Each process of the work has standardized regulations to restrict workers' freedom to create, and even reduced demand for technology. That made workers into the edge of the robot assembly line. This phenomenon was performed in Chaplin's films. As the result, the work has become more and more boring. A socialist who named Sinclair had even written to the American magazine "editor-in-chief", accusing Taylor to raise wages by 61 percent, while the workload has increased by 362 percent. Because of the Watertown Arsenal strike in the early twentieth century in the Boston area, the Congress established a special committee to investigate the Taylor system, and in 1912 published a report, recognizing the Taylor system there was considerable innovation in the organization and management of technical, but the system gave too much power to the senior management, which is very dangerous. Because he made a completely change to the traditional modes of production. Then, the congress made a survey on the attitude of workers. The survey showed