NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Scientific Management, Stopwatch, Piece Work
10 Nov 2015
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Blamed managers did not have enough technological knowledge to manage workers. Not working to capabilities, slowing down production on purpose (soldering) Wanted to control labour + machines! (control all aspects) Inefficiencies = time spent from getting from machine a to machine b a) Eliminate position of foreman, create new management system (i. e. personnel dept, planning dept. ) Time and motion studies: using stopwatch to figure most efficient method to complete task. Peace rate system (reward & punishment system): paid more for hard work. Work should be governed by scientific laws b) Why was scientific management introduced in the early 20th century. A way of controlling a more powerful + growing labour force in u. s. Dismiss major changes in 18th + 19th century. Rise of techno based industry - a part of story of scientific management. Scientific management has the worse negative impact on workers. Exaggerated of exploitation of workers: turn to unskilled - semiskilled worker.
