Illinois Institute of Technology .
Frederick Taylor-The Father of Modern Management.
Frederick Taylor is the father of modern management. Perhaps I think that he is the only person who actually understood the scientific management and had an impact on management service. His book "The Principles of Scientific Management " laid the foundation of modern organization. Before writing this book he was an engineer for a steel company. While working, his goal was to find the most efficient way to perform specific tasks. He closely watched how work was done and would then measure the quantity produced. In my paper I will be explaining some of the problems, which he observes, and his solutions to those problems.
At his time, a typical manager would have a very little contact with his workers. One person i.e. the supervisor would get the responsibility to supervise the workers. Worker under such conditions would work in their own way and pace. They never used to work in collaboration. Each of them used to think that why should he work hard when a person who is not showing that much effort as him is getting paid the same amount of money. If they work fast they wouldn't get paid more, so the workers intentionally were being lazy.
The first problem, which he talks about, is Soldiering , when worker would purposely work below their capacity for many reasons. They thought that if they worked fast that would probably lead to elimination of their job. If one person can do a job, which is now .
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done by ten people then the company would eliminate those nine persons and keep only one person who can work more. They would still get paid the same even if they work slowly. Another thing was that if they finish their work prior to the deadline that would .
set up a new pace of time, which was against their wish. Taylor solution to this problem was to create a bond between workers and the manager and let him describe the workers about the work they had to do in given time.
