The Principles of Scientific Management

What are the four "new duties" of the manager under Taylorism

develop a science for each element of work, scientifically select and then train workmen, cooperate with workmen, equal participation of work between laborer and manager

According to Taylor, what is the most important aspect of any business that should be valued most by management?

efficiency

What does Taylor think are the most important skills an effective manager should have?

goal oriented, cooperative with employees, manage by "walking about" ability to hire the right people for the job

Why does soldiering persist?

increase in output of each man or machine typically results in fewer jobs, defective systems of management that make soldiering necessary persist, and inefficient rule-of-thumb methods still being used

What are the three reasons Taylor wrote this novel?

point out inefficiencies in daily activities, convince readers that the remedy for inefficiency lies in systematic management, and to prove that management is a science

What are Taylor's key closing points about doing scientific management correctly?

science, not rule of thumb harmony, not discord cooperation, not individualism maximum output, in place of restricted output the development of each man to his greatest efficiency and prosperity

Deliberately doing less work, not being efficient on purpose

soldiering

doing less as a team of workers, more specifically: keeping the employer ignorant of how efficiently the work could actually be done

systematic soldiering

What time period was TPOSM written during that may have affected the content?

Industrial Revolution