Scientific Management – Taylor Assignment 5
In Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management, he explains the fundamentals of Scientific Management. In an obvious view of an example of a successful business, you would believe that the employer and employee work together to produce whatever the object is to make the business successful. This would make both the employer and employee happy. The worker would work quickly and to the best of their ability in order to increase productivity and in return the employer can sell more units of the commodity. The employer would get the best profit and also pay the worker a decent wage. The employer and employee should both be happy with this outcome and therefore should be working together.
Instead of working together to prosper the business, employees are working slower in order to stretch out the work over time. Taylor believes that the only way to reach maximum prosperity is for the employee and employer to recognize that they have the same goal and must work quickly to keep high wages for they worker and better profit for the employee.
Taylor mentions that even if an employee is a quick worker, he will decrease his speed when he realizes that other workers are not working as quickly and still earning the same pay. This is called “soldiering”. Other employees may become upset if one worker is showing more enthusiasm and working much quicker and are able to produce double or triple the amount of work than the rest of the workers. If they work too quickly, this can also show the employer that they may possibly not need as many workmen. This happens when the relationship between employees and employers is poor and both are just doing what they have been told or taught by elders. Soldiering has been hindering the success of many industries
But the employees are not the only ones creating a challenge for reaching prosperity. The methods of the employers have also been to work people as much as they can for the least bit of money in order for them to gain a bigger profit.
By properly managing these workers by getting rid of employee “soldiering” and the employers “sweat-shop” like ideals of management. Taylor believes that it would be possible to be competitive, and lower production cost. There are many more people who are spreading the soldiering way to work. The employers also must be educated properly on management to create proper leaders in many industries.
