Taylor's Scientific Management Theory

Braverman's three general features of industrial capitalism

Expropriation, ability to sell own labor, expansion of capitalism

Gilbreths

husband and wife team who were also interested in scientific management but approached it from the concern of movement rather than time

systematic soldiering

in order to maintain pay, the workers would pace each other to stay at the same work rate and not make more or less on the production line. This was a way to stick it to the man

Goals of analysis of movement

to cut out any unecessary movement in a task to make it more efficient and also decrease fatigue.

Taylor's belief

That if we follow the four principles of scientific management then workers would receive a higher wage, production levels would increase for organizations, putting everyone in society in a better social standing and ultimately ridding society of its ills. efficiency + science = social harmony

Results: happiness minutes

referring both to reduced fatigue and greater enthusiasm from workers about their jobs

Taylor's scientific management

Emerged with 4 principles for how to run an organization through science and effeciency

Ability to sell your own labor

In other words the forced decision to choose an organization to "sell" your labor to that was necessary after expropriation came into play

Expropriation

The transition from self employment to having to work for someone else

Division of labor: social and manufactured

This division came about because of the expansion of capitalism treated workers as tools instead of people and they felt alienated from their social and natural surroundings

Ordinary management

This system wasn't working for the workers or the management and so it was time for a new way to run organizations

Gilberth's analysis of movement: Therbligs

basic units of motion that makeup work tasks

Expansion of capitalism

was strictly the organizations goal to make a profit and in this case it was negatively effecting the life of the workers who were being used as tools to perform mass production for businesses.

Piece rate and rate busting

workers were not payed more for faster or more production, in fact an increase in work rate would lead to a decrease in pay

four principles for scientific management

1) scientific job design. 2) scientific selection and training of workers where they are matched to a specific skill set. 3) cooperations between management and workers. 4) equal division of work between managers and workers where managers would plan out the tasks that the workers had to perform.