FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR

Frederick Winslow Taylor is accepted as a father of scientific management and also Taylor gave his name to Taylorism, which is a efficiency trend. Taylor founded passing the system of assembly band in the production. Everything started for Taylorism when Taylor noticed the fabric's inefficiency. According to Taylor's observation, in the fabric, the labors were soldiering, there was no scientific approach about the productivity, the time was not used efficiently etc. Taylor tried to present solutions to problems that he observed. Taylor constructed the solutions by thinking that working class’s good is common with the capitalists’ good. In the great work of Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management, says “The principal object of management should be to secure maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for the employee. Taylor’s studies were based on this approach.

v STUDIES

Taylor’s studies based on the efficiency of the using the time. These studies are known as time and motion studies. According to Taylor, scientific management becomes the work more efficient and incentive than movitating workers. There are some examples of Taylor’s experiments:

§ Pig Iron If workers could lift 12.5 tons of pig iron per day, they are fails when they are said to lift 47.5 tons of pig iron per day because of tiring. However, workers would lift 47.5 tons of pig iron per day without tiring when there are logical planning about the optimal timing of lifting and resting. Not all workers are capable of lifting 47.5 tons of pig iron per day. This observation shows that workers should be selected according to how well they are suited for a particular job.

§ Science of Shoveling

Taylor determines the optimum weight, which workers should be lift in a shovel, 21 pounds. According to this determination, Taylor suggests that special shovels which lift 21 pounds should be made for every different material.

According to many experiment about productivity, Taylor brought forward many principles of scientific management:

· Replace rule-of-thumb work methods with methods based on a scientific study of the tasks.

• Scientifically select, train, and develop each worker rather than passively leaving them to train themselves.

• Cooperate with the workers to ensure that the scientifically developed methods are being followed.

• Divide work nearly equally between managers and workers, so that the managers apply scientific management principles to planning the work and the workers actually perform the tasks.

Taylor’s Studies are very important for manufacture process and they are milestone of industrial productivity. These studies contain manufacture and management process. Taylor is the father of industrial engineering because of these contributions.

References

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/dea453_653/ideabook1/thompson_jones/Taylorism.htm
http://www.bilgiyonetimi.org/cm/pages/mkl_gos.php?nt=291
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/TRIVIABITS/FredWTaylor.html
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