UNIT 4 MANAGEMENT THINKERS - CLASSICAL
LESSON 10 F.W. TAYLOR
LESSON 11 HENRY FAYOL
LESSON 12 GEORGE ELTON MAYO
,LESSON 10 F.W. TAYLOR
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
10.0 OBJECTIVES
10.1 INTRODUCTION
10.2 PERSONAL LIFE
10.3 CONTRIBUTIONS
10.4 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
10.4.1 PRINCIPALS TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY
10.4.2 LIMITATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
10.5 SUMMARY
10.6 REFERENCES
10.7 GLOSSARY
, BBM 105 Unit 4, Lesson 10
LESSON 10 F.W. TAYLOR
After learning about various schools of management of thoughts, we will now
study about the main management thinkers. In this lesson and the next two lessons
we study about the classical thinkers. Frederick W. Taylor was the first man in
recorded history who deemed work deserving of systematic observation and study.
He is regarded as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first
management consultants.
10.0 Objectives
After reading this chapter you will be able to:
Know about the life of F.W. Taylor
Understand the concept of scientific management
Critically evaluate the contribution of Fredrick W. Taylor towards scientific
management
10.1 Introduction
Frederick Winslow Taylor is known as “the father of scientific management”.
He insisted that management itself would have to change and, further, Taylor
suggested that decisions based on rules of thumb be replaced with precise
procedures developed after careful study of individual situations. On Taylor's
'scientific management' rests, above all, the tremendous surge of affluence in the
last years which has lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above
any level recorded before, even for the well-to-do. Taylor, though the Isaac Newton
(or perhaps the Archimedes) of the science of work, laid only first foundations,
however. Not much has been added to them since - even though he has been dead
all of ninety years.
10.2 Personal Life
Taylor was born in 1856 to a wealthy Quaker family in Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Franklin Taylor, a Princeton educated lawyer,
built his wealth on mortgages. His mother, Emily Annette Taylor was an ardent
abolitionist and a coworker with Lucretia Mott. Educated early by his mother, Taylor
studied for two years in France and Germany and traveled Europe for eighteen
months. In 1872, he entered Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.
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LESSON 10 F.W. TAYLOR
LESSON 11 HENRY FAYOL
LESSON 12 GEORGE ELTON MAYO
,LESSON 10 F.W. TAYLOR
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
10.0 OBJECTIVES
10.1 INTRODUCTION
10.2 PERSONAL LIFE
10.3 CONTRIBUTIONS
10.4 SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
10.4.1 PRINCIPALS TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY
10.4.2 LIMITATIONS OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
10.5 SUMMARY
10.6 REFERENCES
10.7 GLOSSARY
, BBM 105 Unit 4, Lesson 10
LESSON 10 F.W. TAYLOR
After learning about various schools of management of thoughts, we will now
study about the main management thinkers. In this lesson and the next two lessons
we study about the classical thinkers. Frederick W. Taylor was the first man in
recorded history who deemed work deserving of systematic observation and study.
He is regarded as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first
management consultants.
10.0 Objectives
After reading this chapter you will be able to:
Know about the life of F.W. Taylor
Understand the concept of scientific management
Critically evaluate the contribution of Fredrick W. Taylor towards scientific
management
10.1 Introduction
Frederick Winslow Taylor is known as “the father of scientific management”.
He insisted that management itself would have to change and, further, Taylor
suggested that decisions based on rules of thumb be replaced with precise
procedures developed after careful study of individual situations. On Taylor's
'scientific management' rests, above all, the tremendous surge of affluence in the
last years which has lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above
any level recorded before, even for the well-to-do. Taylor, though the Isaac Newton
(or perhaps the Archimedes) of the science of work, laid only first foundations,
however. Not much has been added to them since - even though he has been dead
all of ninety years.
10.2 Personal Life
Taylor was born in 1856 to a wealthy Quaker family in Germantown,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father, Franklin Taylor, a Princeton educated lawyer,
built his wealth on mortgages. His mother, Emily Annette Taylor was an ardent
abolitionist and a coworker with Lucretia Mott. Educated early by his mother, Taylor
studied for two years in France and Germany and traveled Europe for eighteen
months. In 1872, he entered Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.
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