Fredrick Taylor Principles of scientific management

Does Taylor think workers are correct to fear increased productivity?

No, production goes up, prices go down, mass markets **Why were they concerned? Fear being laid off, fear of lowered wages

What are the principles of scientific management?

1st principle - is the gathering in this great mass of traditional knowledge, which is done by the means of motion study, time study, and can be truly called the science. **Overall: Scientific Approach to finding and developing good workers, improving efficiency (implemented by Ford) **Scientific study of tasks (time and motion studies) in order to improve individual abilities of workers. 2nd deliberate selection of the workmen is the second of the great duties that devolve on the management under scientific management. **Scientifically select, train and develop each worker rather than leaving them to train themselves. 3rd principle: The third principle is the bringing together of this science of which I have spoken and the trained workmen. **Cooperate with workers to ensure that the scientifically developed methods are being followed. 4th principle is the plainest of all. It involves a complete redivision of the work of the establishment **Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks.

How do workers resist efforts to increase productivity?

To do the bear minimum and they resist by trying to stop effects of labor saving devices.