Contribution of Scientific Management in the 21st Century
Scientific management is a management theory based on analyzing and studying workplace processes with the goal of making them more efficient. Its founder was Frederick Taylor and the theory emerged late in the 19th century. Scientific management analyzes workflows and processes with the goal of making them more efficient. While the influence of scientific management reached its peak in the mid-20th century, some of its principles live on today in total quality management and Six Sigma processes. 1. Productivity o One of scientific management's greatest accomplishments is increasing productivity. By studying the activities of workers, scientific management discovered methods to make every worker more efficient. Time and motion studies and other workplace studies analyzed work operations and discovered the most effective and efficient ways to perform jobs. By discovering how to maximize the efforts of everyone in a company, profitability could increa...