Works
- The Principles of Scientific Management, Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1911
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Scientific management
Ideas
Scientific management. Taylor argued that the work of every workman should be fully planned out by the management at least a day in advance, as a task with written instructions saying what is to be done, how, and in what time, and that a worker who does the task right and within the time limit receives 30 to 100 percent more than ordinary wages; one type of man is needed to plan ahead and an entirely different type to execute the work. Caveat: Its fragmentation of jobs is the target of the human relations, sociotechnical, and labor process critiques.
Functional foremanship. Under functional management the old-fashioned single foreman is superseded by eight different men, each with his own special duties, who act as agents of the planning department and as expert teachers in the shop. Caveat: The book calls these teachers functional foremen and refers to Taylor's Shop Management for the details.