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Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856-March 21, 1915), widely known as F. W. Taylor, was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He is regarded as the father of scientific management.
Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in the Progressive Era.

Overall, Taylor emphasized organizational design, worker selection and training for efficiency, chains of command, and division of labor.
He believed that work and organizations can be scientifically or rationally designed and developed.

1. Forecasting and planning
-Examining the future and drawing up the plan of action, a definition of goals
2. Organizing
-Building up the structure, material and human to implement the organizational plans or goals (undertakings)
3. Commanding
-Directing/maintaining activity/functional operations among the personnel and materials to obtain maximum or optimum return for the organization (e.g., continuous contact with the staff)
4. Coordinating
-Binding together, unifying and harmonizing all activity and effort; integrating efforts of all organizational members (e.g., constant circulation of information, regular meetings)
5. Controlling
-Seeing that everything (i.e., forecasting/planning, organizing, commanding, & coordinating) occurs in conformity with established rule and expressed command (e.g., establish an independent, impartial unit/function/dept. for inspection and sanction)

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Varied break times, hours, pay rates, food

Output grew (relays/hour) with each change
Output was the highest when it reverted back to the original conditions (i.e., a 48-hour 6-day week, no incentives, no rest pauses, no refreshment)

Initially, a mystery: later explained: Due to social grouping/relationships; workers had more control over their environment:
1. More freedom to set their own pace and the setting
2. Fuller, open communication between workers and research
3. Within their team and supervisor - a sense of participation, pride/importance, satisfaction

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What is scientific management?

Developed by Frederick Taylor 1911, it is a way to maximize individual efficiency by breaking down each task into very standardized movements

What are the goals of scientific management?

Maximize efficiency, increase production and repeatability.

What process does scientific management utilize to achieve these goals?

- Develop a science of each task
- Select and Train Workers
-Incent workers to execute plan
- Divide responsibility evenly between workers and managers

How would you describe the relationship between a manager and an employee under scientific management?

Manager has all power, dictates expectations of workers by breaking task down into science and distributing sections of task to separate workers.

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