NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Stelco, Scientific Management, Stopwatch
25 Nov 2017
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Key aspects of scientific management: substitution of science for individual judgment, scientific selection of workmen, greater cooperation between management and workers, work should be governed by scientific laws. Scientific management based on four major principles and taylor believed that implementing each principle would create a more efficient workplace. For instance, consider the idea of substituting science for individual judgment and work being governed by scientific laws. Taylor believed that traditional working knowledge gave laborers an unfair advantage over management and that workers could essentially do run the machines however they wanted to. He thought management should acquire more technical knowledge through time and motion studies so that brain work removed from shop floor and placed within his new idea of a planning department. The planning department would time a worker using a stopwatch as the worker would perform one task in a variety of different ways.
