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This 4-page paper discusses the differences between scientific management and lean production methods. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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shift from an agrarian society of farms and manual labor to the industrial society of buildings, mass production and mechanization. One of the earliest production theories to come out of
this shift was scientific management, also known as Taylorism after its founder, Frederick Winslow Taylor. Before Taylor came onto the scene, work
was typically performed by skilled craftsmen, who made their own decisions about how their jobs should be performed (Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management, 2010). While autonomy in such situations is
nice for the workers, it also meant that production was not very fast or efficient. Taylor noted this; he also noted that non-incentive wage systems tend to encourage lower productivity
as the employee really has no motivation to work harder (hell be paid the same amount, no matter what he produces, or doesnt produce) (Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management, 2010).
Furthermore, Taylor noted, workers tended to waste too much time on haphazard methods, rather than on optimal work methods including specialization of tasks (Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management, 2010). Taylor
noted that even the most basic and mindless tasks could be planned in a way that would increase productivity (Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management, 2010). In researching the manufacture of
pig iron with a stop watch (as well as other time-management studies), Taylor came up with four principles of scientific management. 1) Rule-of-thumb
work methods should be replaced by methods developed based on a scientific study of tasks. 2) Workers should be scientifically selected, trained and
developed, rather than allowing workers to train themselves. 3) Workers and management should cooperate to ensure scientifically developed methods are being followed.
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