Essays on Frederick Taylor

CONTENTS 1. Part I - Occupational Health and Safety Law 3 1.1. The UK Approach to Regulating Occupational Health and Safety 4 1.1.1. The Role of Legislation (Civil, Criminal and Administrative), other sources of law and recommendations 4 1.1.2. The Role of Law Enforcement and Specialized Agency 6 1.1.3. The Role of Courts 7 1.2. Comparison between the UK and the Brazilian approaches to OSH regulation 8 2. Part II – Management and its Impact on OSH 8 2.1. Administrative approach to management 9 2.2. Scientific management 9 2.3. Behavioral approach to management 10 2.4. Co-operative social systems approach 11 ...

Classical Organization Theory

The classical organizational theory is identified as the oldest school of management pre-dated in the early twentieth century (Shafritz, Ott, and Jang, 2012). This theory is premised on efficiency of bureaucratic systems that operate in an organization. This school of management is based on ensuring maximum productivity of an organization’s systems. In this regard, this theory involves centralized decision-making, specialization of labor, and maximization of profit. For this reason, the theory encompasses a combination of three distinct concepts, bureaucratic, scientific, and administrative theories (Daft, Murphy, and Willmott, 2013). The classical organizational theory was advanced by the first scholars, ...

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Introduction

During the last few decades, the way of doing business has transformed drastically. Previously, the term management and administration were synonymous to each other. The basic notion of managing people revolved around the idea that employees should be controlled to achieve the business objective. Now, employees of the organization are considered the most valuable asset, and they are developed significantly (Morden, 2004). This paper presents the case of a highly experienced professional named Robert, who has worked for Recycled Furnishing for a multitude of years. During his association with the company, the organization saw great heights of success. ...

Executive Summary

The roots of scientific management can be traced back to the 1800s. Although, Frederick Taylor is considered to be the father of scientific management theory, it was Adam Smith, an economist who first came up with this theory. He started his research in a relatively humble manner in a pin manufacturing factory. He had focused on the simple tasks and sought ways to improve the efficiency of the workers. From the implementation of his findings, the company was able to raise their output of 20 pins produced by per employee to over 4800 pins. The next major leap in this ...