Taylor and Scientific Management Flashcards
1
Q
Taylor’s Aim
A
Reduce level of inefficiency within Americas workforce
2
Q
why did taylor want to increase efficiency?
A
- most workers were untrained
- managers gave poor guidance to workers
- rarely any worker appraisal
- very few workers had job security
3
Q
Taylors Approach to fix this
A
1) have workers compete task
2) Identify one which did it the quickest
3) teach rest of workforce the “quickest” method
4
Q
workers were paid..
A
on the basis of their results.
5
Q
Ecomonic man theory
A
workers are only motivated by money
6
Q
piece rate
A
a payment recieved for each unit of outut produced
