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This 7 page paper examines the concept of scientific managing and asses to what extent Scientific Management place a greater importance on efficiency than on creativity and innovation. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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need for an efficient working environment rather than accepting or embracing creativity. However ewe can argue that although this is the common interpretation, with employees treated as cogs in a
machine, it is also a narrow and inaccurate vision of the concepts of scientific management as they were intended. To assess if scientific management places greater emphasis on efficiency rather
than creative and innovation we first need to examine the concept of scientific management as proposed by Frederick Winslow Taylor and then interpret how this may encourage or restrict creativity
and innovation. The foundation of scientific management is in the desire to increase efficiency as well as place control I the hands
of the managers. Prior to the industrial revolution, division of labour was based on craft, with craftsmen being granted complete discretion on the method and manner of completion of the
task; both the design and execution. Post industrial revolution the sub-division of labour appears, this included the breaking down of jobs into component parts, each given to individuals responsible for
that part of the task only (Huczyniski et al, 2003, Baron, 1997). Adam Smith author of The Wealth of Nations claimed that this division of labour created the wealth in
the United Kingdom. Charles Babbage agreed with Smith, calling it The Great Principle of Economical Reproduction (Huczyniski et al, 2003). There is
little doubt that the industrial revolution that was possible as a result of this breakdown of the tasks was responsible, this was a true transformation of the workplace and of
the economy with the way leadership could be imposed. At this time laboratory work was in a minority and most practitioners were educated upper class people.
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