GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Steam Engine, Scientific Management, Factory System

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Emad Samwel

Document Summary

Overview: scientific management era, social man / behavioral era, modern era contingency theory. Industrial revolution: substitution of machine power for human power, steam engine, can move products from one city to another, the factory system , huge factories being set up to mass produce. Workers wasted a lot of their effort by relying on rule-of-thumb methods rather than on optimal work methods that can be determined by a scientific study of the task. Taylor created these 4 principals: replace rule of thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the task, scientifically select and then train, teach, and develop the workman. Drawback of taylorism: slow to change, changes in capacities and processes are expensive and difficult to carry out, limited job enrichment (same kind of work day in day out, money alone does not motivate workers. They were monitored in this state for 12 more weeks: the output was the highest ever recorded.