Evolution of Management Thought

Question 1

Contributions by F. W. Taylor.

Answer 1

• Time and motion study.
• Differential payment.
• Drastic reorganization of supervision.
• Scientific recruitment and training.
• Intimate friendly cooperation between management and the workers.

Question 2

What are the contributions of scientific management?

Answer 2

• Tools and physical movements can be made more efficient.
• Without ability and training person cannot be able to his job effectively.
• Has encouraged managers to seek the one best way of doing the job.

Question 3

What are the drawbacks of scientific management?

Answer 3

• Involves only muscular tasks and involves other managerial tasks.
• Approach believes that economic incentives are enough to motivate man.
• No “one best way.”
• Separation of planning and doing introduce greater specialization and monotony.

Question 4

Fayol’s 14 principles of management.

Answer 4

• Division of work.
• Authority and responsibility.
• Discipline.
• Unity of command.
• Unity of direction.
• Subordination of individual interest to general interest.
• Remuneration.
• Centralization.
• Scalar chain.
• Order.
• Equity.
• Stability of tenure.
• Initiative.
• Esprit de corps.